Reading: Reading Fluency & Strategies: A2 Lesson 2: Using Pictures and Titles to Predict Content
CEFR Level: A2 (Elementary)
Target Reading Sub-skill: Reading Fluency & Strategies
Specific Focus: Using Pictures and Titles to Predict Content
What You Will Learn
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Understand how to use pictures to guess what a text might be about.
- Understand how to use a title to guess what a text might be about.
- Practice making predictions before reading a short text.
- Check if your predictions were good after reading.
Hello Cambodian Learners!
Before you start reading a story or an article, you can often make a good guess about what it will be about. This is called predicting. Looking at pictures and reading the title are great ways to predict! For example, if you see a picture of Angkor Wat and the title says "My Trip to the Temples," you can predict the text will be about visiting Angkor Wat. This helps your brain get ready to understand the text.
How to Predict Content
1. Look at the Picture(s): What do you see in the picture? Who is in it? What are they doing? Where are they?
2. Read the Title: What words are in the title? Do they give you a clue about the topic?
3. Make a Guess: Based on the picture and title, what do you think the text will be about?
Example:
A Fun Day at the Park
Based on the picture and title, what do you think this text will be about?
The picture shows a family picnic, and the title says "A Fun Day at the Park." So, B is a good prediction.
Practice Time!
Activity 1: What's it About?
Look at the picture and read the title. Click the button that best predicts what the short text will be about.
Quick Quiz!
Great Job!
You are learning how to use pictures and titles to predict what a text is about! This is a smart reading strategy that good readers use all the time.
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Note for Educators/Platform Development: This lesson introduces prediction using pictures and titles. Activities involve choosing a likely topic based on these clues, and then optionally revealing a short text to confirm. Ensure Web Speech API is supported. Use clear, suggestive images and titles. Placeholder images are used.
