Making Predictions in Nonfiction
A Grade 3 ELA worksheet to practice making predictions while reading nonfiction texts.
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Making Predictions in Nonfiction
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Read each nonfiction passage. Before you read the entire passage, look at the title and any pictures. Make a prediction about what you think you will learn. Then, read the passage and answer the questions.
The Life of a Butterfly
Before Reading: Look at the title and picture. What do you predict this passage will be about?
A butterfly starts its life as a tiny egg. The egg hatches into a larva, which we call a caterpillar. The caterpillar eats and grows, shedding its skin many times. When it is big enough, it forms a chrysalis around itself. Inside the chrysalis, amazing changes happen. After some time, a beautiful butterfly emerges! The butterfly then flies around, sips nectar from flowers, and lays its own eggs, starting the cycle all over again.
1. Was your prediction correct? Explain why or why not.
2. Based on the passage, what would you predict happens immediately after a caterpillar forms a chrysalis?
It flies away.
It eats more leaves.
It turns into a butterfly.
It lays eggs.
All About Dolphins
Before Reading: What do you think you will learn about dolphins in this passage?
Dolphins are very smart sea animals. They live in oceans all over the world. Dolphins use a special skill called echolocation to find food and navigate. They make clicking sounds and listen for the echoes to tell them where objects are. Dolphins are also very social creatures. They often live in groups called pods and communicate with each other using different squeaks and whistles. Did you know that dolphins are mammals, just like humans? This means they breathe air and give birth to live young.
3. What was one new fact that you learned about dolphins from the passage? Was it something you predicted?
4. Dolphins use to find food and navigate.
5. Dolphins live in groups called .
6. Imagine you are about to read a nonfiction book titled 'The History of Space Travel'. What are two things you predict you might learn about in the book?