Making Predictions Graphic Organizer Worksheet
A making predictions graphic organizer worksheet for 3rd grade: record the clue, your prediction and what really happened, three times as you read. Works with any book and needs no prep.
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Good readers do not just take in the words on the page; they guess what is coming next and then check whether they were right. This making predictions graphic organizer worksheet gives 3rd graders a place to record that thinking while they read. A prediction is only worth something when it is tied to a clue in the text, so the chart asks for the clue first, the prediction second, and the real outcome last. Three rows mean students stop and predict three times as a chapter or story unfolds.
This 3rd grade graphic organizers worksheet is a single landscape page with a Name and Date line, a place to record the book title and author, and a three-column chart headed Text, My Prediction and Outcome. Each cell carries three full writing rules sized for third-grade handwriting, so there is real room to write a sentence rather than a word. Hand it out at the start of a read-aloud, a guided-reading group or an independent chapter book. Students fill one row each time they pause, then come back and complete the outcome column once they have read on and found out what actually happened.
What’s Included
- 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
- 1 landscape three-column predict-and-check chart
- Title and author lines, plus 3 rows with 9 writing lines in every column
- Works with any book, story or passage you are already reading
Three things make this making predictions graphic organizer worksheet worth using. First, putting the clue and the prediction side by side makes the evidence visible, which is the difference between a prediction and a guess. Second, the outcome column closes the loop: students see for themselves that a careful prediction is often close and sometimes wrong, and that both results are useful. Third, because the chart works with any text, the same page can be used all year with whatever your class is reading, so the routine becomes a habit rather than a one-off activity.
Teachers and parents can stretch the chart in several directions. Model the first row together on the board, thinking aloud as you choose the clue. Ask partners to compare their predictions before reading on and to explain which clue convinced them. Have students star the row where their prediction turned out closest and say why that clue was a strong one. At home, use it during a bedtime chapter book and pause at the end of each chapter. Every response depends on the book in the child’s hands, so the sheet ships as a single page.
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