5.6.C
The Standard
make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use titles, headings, genre patterns, and text organization to predict what will come next. They check each prediction against new details and revise it when the evidence changes.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students make a reasonable prediction and point to a specific clue that supports it. As they read, they confirm or revise the prediction and explain which new detail changed their thinking.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat predictions as guesses based only on prior knowledge. They may ignore headings, genre patterns, and text structure, or refuse to revise a prediction after finding conflicting evidence.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short text with a title, headings, and two paragraphs. Ask them to record an initial prediction, cite one clue, then confirm or revise after reading.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a cut-up article with title, headings, and paragraphs; students arrange it, predict the next section, then check the original.
Ask students to write: What do you predict will happen or appear next, and which genre pattern or text feature supports you?
Play Prediction Relay: teams read one paragraph at a time, record a prediction with evidence, then earn points for thoughtful revisions.
Show a weather alert or recipe; students predict what information comes next based on headings, sequence, and the document’s purpose.
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