Prediction, Mystery Reader and Word Wall BINGO

On Friday, the girls became fortune tellers as they learned about prediction during our author's study.  We read Shortcut by Donald Crews and discussed why predicting what happens next in a story is important to overall understanding.  We stopped reading the book halfway through and gave the girls "crystal balls."  The girls had to draw what they predicted would happen next in the story.

When they were done, we turned off our lights and held a flashlight to the bottom of their "crystal balls" while they shared their predictions.

The girls also had their first Mystery Reader!  

We are encouraging the girls to use our Word Wall as a reading and writing aid.  Today we played Word Wall Bingo (which the girls love) and it was wonderful to watch the girls as they grow more comfortable with these words.