Make and Check Predictions in a Story About a Pet Parrot

Fold or cover the second page so your child writes the prediction before reading Part 2. Afterward, ask which clue helped most and whether a different clue would have led to a better guess.

Predict what Kiwi the parrot learns from a radio cooking show while the family is away, then check it. A prediction is a smart guess about what will happen next. You base it on clues, the details you have read so far. The directions on the page read: Read Part 1. Then, copy a clue for question 1 and write your prediction for question 2 before you turn the page. On page 2: Read Part 2. Then, circle your answers to questions 3 and 5. Then, answer question 4 on the 2 lines and question 6 on the 3 lines. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd Grade making inferences and predictions, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with making predictions. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A prediction is a smart guess about what will happen next in a story. You base it on clues, the details you have read so far. A prediction can turn out wrong and still be a good one, as long as it fits the clues.

Part 1 is on the first page. Children copy a clue and write a prediction before they turn the page. Part 2 tells the ending, and children circle Yes, Partly or No to say whether the prediction was right.

That is fine and worth talking about. Reread Part 1 together and look for the clue the author planted, like the kite's long ribbon tail or the seed that looked like the ones in Grandma's bird feeder. The last question on each sheet asks for that clue.

Yes. All six making predictions sheets have an answer key for both pages. Predictions differ, so the key gives a sample clue and prediction to compare with.

An inference is an idea about what is true right now that the story does not say, like how a character feels. A prediction is a smart guess about what will happen next. Both come from clues in the story plus what you already know (RL.3.1).

Each chart row quotes a sentence from the story with its paragraph number. Children write what the clue shows, such as a feeling, the setting or something that happened offstage, and how the clue shows it. Two multiple choice questions and one more inference follow.

Point out clues in everyday life and ask what they tell you, like wet umbrellas by the door or a sibling's slammed door. Then ask how your child knows. Giving the clue along with the idea is the same habit these sheets build.