Description
Here are 24 making predictions task cards to help your students practice making inferences. Each card features a short story and asks students to predict what will come next.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
✍️ PRINT:
- 24 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)
- Black-line
- Color
- Recording Sheets
- Answer Keys
DIGITAL:
- Google Slides
- ***Easel Activity (only available if you purchase on TPT)
DIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:
- Digital or Print
- Challenge Card to extend the lesson
- Multiple versions of the recording sheet included
Great for 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade!
CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE!
This resource is part of a money-saving bundle!
This bundle includes these resources:
- Main Idea Task Cards
- Theme Task Cards
- Informational Text Structure Task Cards
- Summarizing Task Cards
- Cause and Effect Task Cards
- Compare and Contrast Task Cards
- Author’s Purpose Task Cards
- Making Inferences Set 1 Task Cards
- Making Inferences Set 2 Task Cards
- Making Informational Inferences Task Cards
- Sequencing Task Cards
- Character Traits Inferencing Task Cards
- Drawing Conclusions Task Cards
- Generalizations Task Cards
- Genre Task Cards
- Making Connections Task Cards
- Point of View Set 1 Task Cards
- Point of View Set 2 Task Cards
- Questioning Task Cards
- Setting Task Cards
- Visualizing Text Task Cards
NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable.
Teacher Tip
- Download our FREE Task Card Handbook to learn 31 different ways you can use this resource!
Here’s what teachers are saying:
✏️ “TASK CARDS! The task cards that Rachel Lynette creates are amazing! We’ve been using her task cards in small group for half the year. I’ve notice with these prediction cards that the students are enjoying finding out what predictions they classmates are having. If it has Rachel Lynette on it, it’s an amazing purchase!” -Jasmine G.
✏️ “A great resource to use when targeting predictions in stories. I used this with students through school and the private clinic that I work with. It can be easily adapted to work remotely and for in-person. Looking forward to continuing to use this during the fall.” -Ashley H.
✏️ “These tasks cards are a great resource. No prep, easy to use, and students love them! I love the flexibility they allow (printed option or Google Slides).” -Casey G.
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Common Core Standards:
- CCSSRL.4.1 – Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- CCSSRL.5.1 – Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
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About the Author
Rachel Lynette is a published author of over 120 nonfiction books for children on a variety of subjects, as well as several teacher resource books. She has written for publishers such as Harcourt, Thompson-Gale, Rosen, Children’s Press, Evan-Moor, Kagan, and several others. This resource reflects more than a decade of professional writing experience.
Terms of Use
This resource was created by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack for Minds in Bloom INC., all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded.
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This product is happily brought to you by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack of Minds in Bloom
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Kyle C. –
I use this with tutoring for a student working on taking his comprehension to the next level
Nikisha C. –
I use this resource with my teletherapy students who have varying language delays and learning disabilities. It was really helpful, easy to use, and a great product! I’m highly satisfied!
Alyssa C. –
The cards were perfect grab-and-go and gave my students a good scaffolded way to learn to make predictions based on text!
Teaching The Ropes –
I used these as a whole class warmup for making predictions . They were just right!
Jocelyn B. –
I work with students K-8th and this works for many of my students in late elementary and early middle school.
Edna Z. –
I love using these as inferencing and prediction practice; students struggle at first to find ‘what isn’t there’ but after a few cards they start to get the hang of it, and really enjoy feeling like word detectives.
Kara W. –
My students enjoyed this resource! They thought it was very fun and was not very complicated!
Roisin Stapleton –
This was a really great resource that I really liked using
Reading with Raz –
This is a great and easy to use resource to practice predictions. The stories are interesting and lend to a great discussion.
M C. –
Extremely happy with this resource! It has been so helpful during therapy!