Virginia SOL 1.RL.1.D
The Standard
Generate predictions about story characters and events using the text.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Key Ideas and Plot Details
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use clues from the words and pictures to tell what a character might do or what might happen next. They explain which clue helped them form the idea.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student gives a reasonable idea about a character’s next action or the next event. The student points to a specific word, picture, or earlier action as support and revises when new clues appear.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may make random guesses based only on personal experience. They may retell what already happened instead of predicting, or think a prediction must be correct.
How to Assess It
- Pause before the last page of a short picture book. Ask students to draw or write what will happen next and name one story clue.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a picture book and sticky notes; at three stopping points, students draw the next event and circle the clue they used.
Pause after a character faces a problem and ask, “What will the character do next, and which word or picture supports your idea?”
Play Prediction Match: students pair clue cards with possible-event cards, then explain each match to a partner.
Read a story about losing a lunchbox, then have students predict the character’s next step using story clues and familiar school routines.
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Related Standards
- 3.W.1.B
Write personal or fictional narratives that organize event sequences that unfold naturally.
- 2.RL.1.D
The 2nd Grade version of this standard.
- K.RL.1.D
With prompting and support, generate predictions about story characters and events using the text
- 10.RL.1.B
Analyze how authors structure texts to advance the plot, explaining how each event gives rise to the next or foreshadows a future event.
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