How awesome my mom is..........

                                      How Awesome My Mom Is.............
Ha, my mom dared me to use that as my blog title...And although the list for How Awesome My Mom is,  literally is endless sadly  that is not that revelent for Honors English 10.
     This week again we read Frankenstein  and I think that the both of us are getting bored of my never ending summaries so this week I decided to do something different...In class this past Tuesday we were given quotes from Frankenstein and we had to put the quotes on the board where we put who said the quote and a prediction. This week I decided to do a blog post on the importance of predictions,  how to effectivly make a good prediction and the impact that  making predictions in reading has on us outside of the book. Notice how my after reading my blog post title you were already making predictions............. aha caught you there :)
     According to readinginnovations.com a prediction is defined as: thoughts about what you think will happen in a story before you read.  A prediction is more than just a guess.  It should make sense with the clues you have been given.. A prediction is an important reading strategy because : It helps us focus on the text, it helps make connnections on what we already know and what we think we know, and making predictions gets us excited about reading. When we make predictions it opens up our eyes to the possibilities and wonders that the book may hold.
     How to make good effective predictions:
1. Have a paper and on the left side of the paper put your prediction and on the right side of the paper write evidence, this will give you more accurate predictions.
2.Use the covers of the book, the table of contents, chapter headings, and diagrams to help formulate predictions.
3. Come up with a list of all the REASONALBLE possibilities of the outcome to the story.
4.Look for the Who, What, When, Where, Why ,and How. This will help you filter relevant and irrelevant information.
5.Read closely into implications that the author makes.
6. Make predictions often and more then just before the end of the story.
7. Share predictions with others who are reading the same book.
8. After a prediction is made compare it with the actual outcome.
     Making predictions will help us in life because it teaches us to make educated guesses, It can help us be prepared, it teaches us to read/listen to words and body language more carefully(implications), and it helps us think more deeply and inbetween the lines more. 
                               Thanks guys see you next week!
                                     Kalea Pauole