K.5.C

ELAKindergartenThe student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.

The Standard

make and confirm predictions using text features and structures with adult assistance

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students use titles, covers, pictures, headings, and repeated patterns to predict what may happen or what they may learn. They check their prediction as the teacher reads and explain whether the text supports it.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student makes a reasonable prediction and points to a title, picture, or story pattern as evidence. After reading more, the student confirms or changes the prediction using new details.
Common Misconceptions: Students may make guesses based only on what they want to happen, rather than clues in the book. They may think a prediction must be correct or refuse to change it after hearing new information.
How to Assess It: Show the cover and first two pages of an unfamiliar picture book. Ask, “What do you predict, what clue helped you, and did the next page confirm your prediction?”

Lesson moves

Give pairs a picture book and sticky notes to mark one prediction, one supporting clue, and whether later pages confirm it.
Use the frames, “I predict ___ because ___” and “My prediction was confirmed or changed because ___,” during a class read-aloud.
Play Prediction Detective by showing one page at a time and awarding a clue card when students support predictions with book details.
Read a picture recipe and have students predict the next step from sequence words and photos, then reveal the next recipe card.

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