Glossary: Making Predictions and Summarizing

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practise the skill of making predictions.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognise the importance of transitional phrases!

Teach your second graders how to write a prediction and summarize book chapters in this exciting lesson!

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

This open-ended worksheet helps second graders form predictions about books before they read them.

Get ready to make predictions! Students read a short text independently, then draw and write about what they think will happen next.

Help your second graders practise their reading fluency while also using their prediction and summarizing skills.

Help your second graders practise their prediction and summarizing skills using this helpful worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn to Compare and Contrast.