Making Predictions Worksheets

About this resource

A prediction makes sense when it matches a clue the text already gives you. It doesn't make sense when it goes against one. This is a full making-predictions kit for first and second grade, with three practice formats that build from recognizing to sorting to writing: first circling the right answer, then cutting and sorting, then writing an original prediction and naming its clue.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (24 pages)

• 8 student pages in 3 page types plus a Helper page (below), each with a big "My name" line and one short instruction
• 42 predictions across the two practice formats: 18 passage-and-prediction items on Circle Makes Sense or Not (9 Makes Sense, 9 Doesn't Make Sense), plus 24 short cards on Sort Makes Sense or Not (12 Makes Sense, 12 Doesn't Make Sense); every item is built from one clue word that is really stated in the text and its registered opposite, so no item is ambiguous between the two bins
• 2 cut-and-sort pages, 12 cards each (6 Makes Sense, 6 Doesn't Make Sense), edge-to-edge in a 4-by-3 grid
• 3 answer keys generated from the same data as the pages, plus the two criteria a Write Your Own prediction must meet to count
• 1 tracker (16 rows), 1 team note, 1 home page, 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (21 starters)
• 1 binder cover and divider tabs (5 tabs plus a spine label) that drop straight into a classroom binder
• Start Here, a how-to-read-a-page page, a definitions page with blanks for your program's own wording, and a back page

THE THREE PAGE TYPES (dots show the level, never color)

1. Making Predictions Helper (1 dot) — what makes a prediction make sense or not, side by side, in kid words

2. Circle Makes Sense or Not (1 dot, 3 pages) — read a short passage and a candidate prediction, circle Makes Sense or Doesn't Make Sense

3. Sort Makes Sense or Not (2 dots, 2 pages) — cut short clue-and-prediction cards and glue them into the right bin

4. Write Your Own Prediction (3 dots, 2 pages) — read a new passage, write what happens next, and name the clue that supports it (a science fair, a rainy recess, a new puppy, a field day race)

Circle Makes Sense or Not comes in three sets of six items (A, B, C); Sort Makes Sense or Not comes in two pages of twelve cards, so a child never meets the same passage, card or prediction twice.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction, large rounded letters, and space to write. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult. Cutting is limited to Sort Makes Sense or Not: 12 pieces a page in a 4-by-3 grid, edge to edge, each wide enough to read and glue.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the tracker, the team note, the home page and the definitions page note box are type-in fields in any PDF reader. The lines a student writes on are pencil work. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

First and second grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher working with an older student who still needs this skill. The home page sends the same talk-first questions to a family; the team note hands off what changed since the last meeting.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Making-predictions practice with the record-keeping around it. It is not a probe, a goal bank or a passage-scoring sheet, not a reading assessment, and not a claim about any student's age or rate of progress. Predictions that need outside knowledge the passage never gives, and multi-step inference chains, are not practiced; every item is grounded in one clue the text actually states. Write Your Own Prediction is checked against two plain-language rules, never a single right-answer key.