What happens next
At what age should a child be able to read a book and be able to make a good prediction of what happens next based on what he knows of the characters and the situation?
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Seems like they talk about this in kindergarten and first grade at school. It's something they look at for comprehension.ysicann
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I think you'll need to talk to someone in child development for that one, Jane. I can tell you what you might expect in a junior higher's thinking, but not the little ones.BeckyRebecca LuElla...
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"What happens next" is a title of a Dora the Explorer episode, so it might happen as early as three to five.But of course my four year old has seen it thirty-thousand times so obviously she knows...
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I think little ones can do it, provided the story actually has some predictability. My fifth graders can do it, though they don't always guess right.Elizabeth EvansA Tree by the Stream
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To start with, the child must be taught how to make predictions when reading. For many of us adults, we take our reading comprehension for granted because we have been reading for so long. I have four...
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If it helps, my three-year-old has a "Blue's Clues" book where he's helping Blue predict what will happen next. (As in, Blue has an ice cream cone and the sun is shining. What do you think will happen...
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I think it has to do with the age of the child and the amount of exposure they have to different experiences. My six year old is in first grade and knows to expect things to happen in a story,...
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