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What is predicting in reading?

Making predictions is a strategy that students learn to use information from a text to anticipate what they are about to read. For example, in grade 1 students are given simple texts to read and asked to circle the picture that depicts what happens next:

Why is predicting a text important?

Learning to predict what happens next in a story is an important element in helping kids improve their reading comprehension. Why, you ask? Students who are able to make predictions about a story, based on what they have already read, are also able to become actively involved in the reading process.

In making predictions, students use critical thinking and problem solving skills. In reflecting and evaluating the text, students extract deeper meaning of the text and, therefore, improve their comprehension skills.

Learning about our solar system is fascinating to most kids. The sun, the moon, the stars and planets are covered in all elementary school grades. In grade 1, students start to learn the basic facts about our Solar System. Students are asked to use observations of the sun, moon and start to describe patterns, such as how the sun rises and moved across the sky. They also learn about patterns of daylight at different times of the year.

In our science worksheets section, we have created a series of worksheets that cover the earth, sun and moon for grade 1 students, including:

Day and night

In grade 1, kids learn that day and night happen as the earth spins relative to the sun. We’ve created 2 worksheets for kids to practice day and night:

We’re lacking in workbooks for kindergarten students in our bookstore, but we are doing something about it. Today, K5 published the first of a series of new workbooks for kindergarten. It’s a letters workbook focused on learning to trace and print the letters A to Z, understanding upper and lowercase letters, and putting letters in alphabetical order.

Let’s show you how some of the pages look.

Letters A to Z worksheets

Here’s what the letter A worksheets look like. Each letter has four worksheets dedicated to learning that letter, starting with tracing and printing the letters A and a:

Hot on the heels of our kindergarten science worksheets, we have today published science worksheets for grade 1 students. The plan is still to add curriculum-based science worksheets up to the end of grade 5 for free.

Science worksheets for grade 1

Our science worksheets for budding young scientists cover the following topics:

Plants

This section covers living things, parts of plants, seeds, plant life cycles and how plants adapt to their environment. Here’s one of those worksheets, covering the plant life cycle:

All our worksheets come with answers on a second page: