Text Predicting Poster + Lesson Plan!

This poster is the perfect start to any literacy unit and gives students a format to explore ideas about the new text that they will study.

This is lesson 1 of my Adaptabubble Unit – three weeks of lessons that can be adapted to any text or theme. The included lesson plan contains suggestions for starters, a child-friendly explanation of the lesson, differentiation and plenary. The full unit will probably be available from Easter 2021.

Students are always keen to predict what happens in the stories we read at school - it gets them engaged and interested to see if they were right. But their predictions can be vague or unexplored. This poster has sections for children to predict events, settings, characters and even mood. By exploring the different sections, we can think like writers do. This gives students much deeper expectations for the text and this will helpfully feed into their future writing.

This is a lesson that can be adapted for any text in 5 minutes. Just print 15 copies on A3 and provide a photo of the coverpage/blurb then your class can complete it in pairs. Alternatively, use it as a prototype/WAGOLL to inspire your students to be more creative in presenting their predictions in their own way.

I hope in the future to make this resource fully customisable. Please contact me for further ideas at adaptabubble@gmail.com.