Cookie Catastrophe Predictions Worksheet
This Cookie Catastrophe Predictions Worksheet gives 2nd graders a short baking story that stops right before the ending, with four questions and a written response. An answer key is included, so checking clue-based thinking is quick.
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Making a prediction means using clues, not wild guesses. A good reader notices what the writer has already said and uses it to decide what will happen next. This Cookie Catastrophe Predictions Worksheet gives second graders a short, funny kitchen story that stops one moment before the ending, then asks them to predict the outcome and point to the words that prove it.
Grant and his big sister Riley bake cookies for the school bake sale. Grant stacks the cooled cookies into a tall tower on a paper plate, and Riley warns him that a tall stack can tip over and should sit in the middle of the table. Grant is too excited to listen. He sets the plate right at the edge, the tower wobbles, and his elbow bumps the plate just as the story ends. Four multiple-choice questions follow, each with one defensible answer: why the cookies were baked, what Grant built, where Riley said the plate belonged, and what will most likely happen next. A short written response asks for two clues, and this 2nd grade predictions worksheet includes a full answer key.
What’s Included
- 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
- Answer key
- An original 160-word story that stops before its ending, with a full-color illustration
- 4 multiple-choice questions on details, the story’s warning, and the prediction
- 1 written response question with ruled writing lines
There are three reasons this resource helps children learn to predict. First, the story plants its warning early and pays it off later, so students must carry a clue across paragraphs instead of copying one sentence. Second, the questions in the Cookie Catastrophe Predictions Worksheet check the details that support the prediction before asking for it, which models how careful readers build an answer. Third, the written response asks for two clues, so children practice explaining their thinking the way reading tests will ask them to.
Teachers and parents can extend the lesson in many ways. Pause any read-aloud before a big moment and ask what will happen next, then ask which words gave the clue. Record the class predictions on chart paper and check them at the end of the book. Build a small block tower together, talk about what makes it wobble, and let children predict when it will fall. Finish by having students write a new ending for Grant and Riley’s cookie tower.
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