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Coteaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in Elementary School Libraries: Maximizing Your Impact

Chapter 6: Making Predictions and Inferences: Emerging Lesson
Photo of Rita Villalobos

Photo of Pam Gaviña

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Teacher-librarian Pamela Gaviña and 1st-grade classroom teacher Rita Villalobos field tested this lesson in September 2007 at Lela Alston Elementary School in the Isaac School District in Phoenix, Arizona. They conducted the lesson in the library. In these photographs, Rita is reading If You Give a Pig a Pancake while Pamela records predictions on a class-sized storyboard.

Team teaching for modeling allowed them to work more efficiently and effectively than if one educator were facilitating this lesson alone.

Below are Sebastian's storyboard for If You Give a Mouse a Muffin and Janet's storyboard for If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Supplement 6D).

 

 

Sebastian's Storyboard

Janet's Storyboard
Class Reflections on Making Predictions
How do we make predictions when we read?
How did predicting help us stay interested in the story?

AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner:

  • Use prior and background knowledge as a context for new learning. (1.1.2)
  • Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g., textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning. (1.1.6)
  • Collaborate with others to broaden and deepen understanding. (1.1.9)
  • Organize knowledge so that it is useful. (2.1.2)
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