A prediction is a good guess about what you think you will find out about or what will happen next in a text. Good readers make predications before they read and as they read.
Things that help you make a prediction . . .
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Headings, pictures and other text features.
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The questions the author asks.
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Making connections to what you already know – your background knowledge and experience.
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Skimming.
Prediction sentence starters:
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Based on the title, subheadings, picture/diagram, etc), I predict that this page/chapter will be about…
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I think the next chapter (or page) will be about…
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From the questions I think that I will find out about…
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Based on (a clue), I imagine that…
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Tips:
As a reader is learning to make predictions while reading. “What do you think will happen Next ?” “Who do you think drank Sara’s lemonade?” These types of questions we ask people as they’re reading help them learn to monitor their understanding of the story while thinking ahead to the next part. If is able to make good and fairly accurate predictions while reading, chances are comprehends the story well.
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GUESSING
Guessing is what we do when logic and information don't provide sufficient insight to answer a question completely. Current theories and research on intelligent guessing? That is, guessing that's tied to a rational process? Are limited and disjoint. An integrated theory of intelligent guessing could provide an organizing theme for research currently performed under multiple AI subdisciplines.This article is part of a special issue on the Future of AI.
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Contextual inference or contextual guessing is defined as an important strategy in the absence of dictionaries or human assistance and it “entails guessing the meaning of target word based on interpretation of its immediate cotext with or without reference to knowledge of the world. There are two main factors affecting guessing ability: reader-related variables and text-related variables. Reader related variables are vocabulary size, knowledge of grammar, language proficiency, attention to details, cognitive and mental effort, and reader characteristics.
Tomorrow's world
Exercise Predicting and Guessing (write the predictions you think that are likely to happen in every tips below)
1. We haven't got a lot of money, so we go on holiday next year.
2. you be able to find a good job when you leave school?
3. He help you with your homework if you ask him.
4. It snow later. I'm not sure.
5. Who do you think win the next World Cup?
6. If you don't revise, you pass the exam.
7. play at the concert?
8. f I buy that camera, I to take some photos when I go on holiday.
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