 This is one way I teach predicting in my class. I like to show the students the cover of the book. This is the book, Caps for Sale. And I have the students think about what they think the book will be about. So I might even have to tell them, predict, hmm, I think I see monkeys, there's hats, there's a man. What could this book to be about? I know it's gonna be about monkeys. I know it's gonna be about a man. I don't know why he's in the tree, but maybe he might have an idea. Hmm, and hats, something about hats, especially since the title says Caps for Sale. For another way of predicting, I might open up a read this story a little bit more. And in the middle of my story, I might show that, of course, the peddler, he goes and takes a nap and the cats have disappeared. And I might ask the students to tell me what they might think or predict and make sure I use the word predict. Can they predict what will happen to the hats? And then I will give them a sticky note. And I'll say, I want you to write your prediction on what you think happened to the hats. So the kids will take the sticky note, they will go back to their seat and they will write about what they predict happened to the hats. Then they will bring them up and then they will stick them on the board and I'll have a few kids come tell me what they thought might happen. And then we will talk about the prediction that they made. And then we will read further in this story to find out some monkeys had the hats. And then we will check our predictions were they correct or were they needed to be changed. And of course, I will tell the kids, it's okay if your predictions were wrong because this is the way that we learn. And that is one way I use predictions in my classroom.