Lifted – A Prediction-Focused Film Lesson

Engage your students with this fun, high-interest prediction lesson based on Pixar’s short film Lifted. Designed to develop reading comprehension skills through visual storytelling, this editable and fully resourced lesson helps learners practise making and justifying predictions from implied and stated details.

What’s Included:

• Teacher-led ActivInspire flipchart introducing prediction and pausing for key discussion points (PDF included).
• Link to an engaging video explainer on how to make predictions.
• Differentiated prediction worksheet using specific timepoints at key story events.
• Plenary discussion prompts to deepen understanding of character mindset and story theme
• Linked to the UK National Curriculum objectives for prediction and comprehension

Key Features:

• Builds key reading comprehension skills: prediction, cause and effect, and theme
• Encourages evidence-based discussion and inference
• Designed for KS2 (Ages 7–11), but easily adaptable to KS3.
• Editable Word/ActivInspire files – fully adaptable
• Ideal for English/Literacy/Guided Reading lessons, cover work, or enrichment
• Links to UK National Curriculum and easily adapted for Common Core

Perfect For:

• English / Literacy / Guided Reading lessons
• KS2 (Years 3 - 6) - editable for KS3.
• Whole-class teaching or small-group support
• Cover lessons, Enrichment or Remote learning
• Predicting practice with a twist!