Making predictions is one comprehension skill that can encourage to support your children to fully engage in the reading process. For example, before you both start reading the text. you may ask your children to look at/read the title, the author’s name, the blur and the cover image (if it has one) and make a prediction about what they think the story will be about. While reading together, you can occasionally ask questions to encourage them to ask questions, these could include questions :
- what do you think will happen on the next page?
- What do you think will happen in the next chapter?
- how will the characters resolve their problems/conflicts?
- where will they go next?
- do you think there will there be a twist at the end of the story?
- how do you think the story will the story end?
Reading can offer children a gateway into other worlds and predictions are one way that they can engage a bit more deeply with those worlds.