Skip to Main Content

Teaching topic: Literacy (defined reading comprehension strategies): Predicting

All as described in Bowe, Treasa; Gleeson, Martin; Courtney, Ann. Building bridges of understanding: theory and actual classroom practices in multiple comprehension strategy instruction. Limerick: Mary Immaculate College, Curriculum Development Unit, 2012

"Prediction involves setting up expectations regarding a text by looking at titles, text features, sections, pictures and captions. The reader is continuously updating long and short term predictions in the light of information uncovered during the course of reading."

In: Bowe, Treasa; Gleeson, Martin; Courtney, Ann. Building bridges of understanding: theory and actual classroom practices in multiple comprehension strategy instruction: resource. Limerick: Mary Immaculate College, Curriculum Development Unit, [2012]. P.8.

Availability

Check Library Search for the availability of any of these titles