Making predictions worksheets

Each click picks one of the 26 passages written for this grade. Every sheet comes with its answer key. You don't need to sign up.

A prediction is a smart guess about what happens next. Find the clues, add what you know, and pick the ending the clues point to.

Three grades, each its own sheet. Print one here, or open a grade for examples and teaching notes.

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  1. 1st grade

    Examples and teaching notes

    Making predictions worksheets for first grade tell little stories that stop right before the ending: a balloon blown too big, a sled at the top of a hill. Your child picks what happens next and the clue that says so. Every story's clues point one clear way.

  2. 2nd grade Core grade

    Examples and teaching notes

    Each click picks one of the 26 passages written for this grade. Every sheet comes with its answer key. You don't need to sign up.

    Second grade prediction passages add real-world clues: storm clouds piling up, geese gathering to fly south. Your child predicts the outcome and matches it to its evidence, which is the difference between guessing and predicting.

  3. 3rd grade

    Examples and teaching notes

    Third grade passages hold more moving parts, and the questions ask for the prediction AND its support: what will happen, which clue points there, and what a character will probably decide. The stories still stop before the ending, because the ending is your child's job.

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