ACTIVITY 5
While You Read: Making Predictions
Reading Skill: Make Predictions: A prediction is an informed guess about what might
happen later in a narrative. Predictions
are based on details in the text and on your own
ideas. As you read, notice details that may foreshadow future
events. When you verify
E predictions, you read on to see if the prediction you
made is correct. If a prediction turns
NG out to be wrong, evaluate your reasoning by
asking questions like these:
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- did I misread details?
- did the author purposely create false expectations in order to surprise me later in
the story?
NOTE: You will need to come back to this activity and complete the VERIFY column once
you've gone on to finish the story. In the VERIFY
column, you will need to write YES for
correct predictions NO for incorrect predictions.
DIRECTIONS: Read the first three paragraphs of "Harrison Bergeron," then complete the
chart below. You can find the story by scanning the QR code to
the left.
Characters:
Who comes
into the story?
What details are
mentioned about
them?
Plot: Who are the
HG Men? What do
they do?
Setting: What
does the setting
seem to be? Where
and when?
PREDICTION
VERIFY
YES OR
NO
