Prediction As Pre-Reading Activity: Prediction Is One of The Many

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PREDICTION AS PRE-READING

ACTIVITY

Prediction is one of the many


good strategies in pre-reading.
This is an important strategy in the
pre-reading stage than in the
during reading stage. Before we
begin to read a text, we usually
have an idea of what the text is
about.
 Sample Activities on Prediction:

A. Prediction based on prior knowledge.


This activity shows how predictions
based on knowledge can facilitate
learner's understanding of the text. This
is helpful because what a learner
already knows about the subject may
enable them to comprehend new
information.
B. Making predictions from the title.
Predicting from the title is a
strategy which is common in the
classroom. This practice helps one
decide if the text is likely to interest
learners or not. This allows learners
to predict the content of the story
which also may trigger the critical
aspect of their minds.
C. Making predictions based on
Content Words. Content words help
learners guess salient points of the
selection, the plot, the message,
the characters, etc.
DURING READING
ACTIVITIES
As the name suggests,
during-reading activities are
activities done while the actual
reading of the text is done.
These activate processing and
encourage close reading.
THE ART OF STORY READING
One of the most important factors in
the success of reading process is story
reading. Once the reading of the story
fails, the entire reading process also
fails. Hence, it is important that the story
reading should be taken with much
care. It is the burden of the teacher to
sustain the interest of the learners in the
reading activity and to lead them to full
appreciation to reading.
READING ALOUD AS A DURING-
READING ACTIVITY
Learners do not learn to comprehend
by reading aloud. Majority of the
psycholinguists believe that learners who
read aloud concentrate on two
activities – word recognition and
comprehension. The tendency among
learners is that they need to sacrifice
one of these two and oftentimes,
comprehension is sacrificed.
It suggests two ways of strategically
using Reading Aloud in the classroom.

 Read aloud to your students as they


follow along silently. You have the ability
to use inflection and tone to help them
hear what the text is saying. Following as
you read will help students move from
word-by-word reading to reading in
phrase and thought units, as they do in
their first language.
Use the “read and look up”
technique. With this technique, a
student reads a phrase or
sentence silently as many times as
necessary, then looks up (away
from the text) and tells you what
the phrase or sentence says. This
encourage the students to read for
ideas, rather than the for word
recognition.
MAKING PREDICTIONS WHILE
READING
This is most applicable to reading
narratives like stories. However, this can
also be applied in some expository texts.
This is done by dividing the text into
several parts and by raising questions
about what may happen next in the
story. Revisions of this style may be done
by asking comprehension question
about the previously read part of the
text.
DEVELOPING READING SKILLS

Teaching reading involves


developing different reading
skills. Teachers ought to develop
at least one of these skills;
otherwise, the entire reading
process will be frivolous.
These reading skills include:

1. Scanning for specific information


2. Making predictions while reading
3. Revising predictions while reading
4. Identifying main ideas and supporting
details
5. Sensing cause-effect relationship
6. Sequencing events
7. Articulating main ideas
8. Synonyms and Antonyms

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