🌲 Reading Forest · Comprehension

Prediction in kindergarten to grade 5

Using clues so far to say what is likely to happen next. Daily Academy tracks it as its own skill, separately from the 5 others in reading forest, so it can never be averaged away by a subject score.

Check it tonight

Stop mid-story: “what happens next, and what makes you think so?”

What to watch for

Predictions from a story they already know rather than from this one.

Real prediction questions from the library

7 activities currently target this skill. These are actual questions, shown at the difficulty they are served at, with the explanation a child sees after answering.

Difficulty 0.5 — mid grade 0
Why was there a puddle?
Hint shown after a miss: It is the very first line of the story.
Explanation: It rained all night, so water collected by the gate.
Difficulty 0.6 — mid grade 0
What colour were Ida's boots?
Hint shown after a miss: The story says it in two short words.
Explanation: Red ones. They were also new, which is why the moment matters.
Difficulty 0.8 — mid grade 0
What is Ida going to do next?
Hint shown after a miss: Dad said that is what boots are for. And she smiled.
Explanation: Jump in the puddle. The story stops just before it happens, and Dad's line plus the big smile is how you know.

The other 5 skills in Reading Forest

Each one is estimated separately, which is what lets the parent dashboard name a specific gap rather than report a subject average.

Literal ComprehensionAfter any story: “what happened first, then what?”VocabularyPoint at an unfamiliar word: “what do you think that means, from the sentence?”Inference“Why did they do that?” — choosing something the text never states.Finding EvidenceAfter any answer, right or wrong: “which part shows you that?”Main Idea“What was that whole page about, in one sentence?”

Common questions

How do I know if my child has prediction secure?

Stop mid-story: “what happens next, and what makes you think so?” Predictions from a story they already know rather than from this one.

Which grade is prediction taught in?

It appears in both. Daily Academy does not gate skills by year group — a child is placed on a continuous difficulty scale during a five-minute intake, and prediction is then served at whatever level they are actually at, adjusted separately from every other skill.

Practice by grade

Grade 2 reading comprehension practiceWhat grade 2 reading comprehension involves, why fluent reading and real understanding are different things, and short daily practice with original stories written for this age.Grade 3 reading comprehension practiceGrade 3 is the year reading shifts from decoding to inference. What that means, why it catches confident readers out, and short daily practice with original stories and evidence questions.Grade 1 reading practiceWhat grade 1 reading covers in Canada, why decoding and comprehension compete for the same attention, and 10 minutes a day of short original stories with questions.Grade 4 reading practiceWhat grade 4 reading covers in Canada, why reading to learn is a different skill from learning to read, and 10 minutes a day of original passages with inference and evidence questions.Grade 5 reading practiceWhat grade 5 reading covers in Canada — comparing two accounts, separating claim from evidence, summarising rather than retelling — with original passages and questions that ask for the line that proves it.Kindergarten reading and phonics activitiesKindergarten reading in Canada — first sounds, rhyming, sight words and listening comprehension — built to be heard rather than read, because a four-year-old cannot read the question.

See where your child stands on prediction

A five-minute intake places them on a continuous scale, and the skill map shows every skill separately from the first week. The daily mission is free.

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