make predictions in simple stories and situations

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The child will be able to say what will happen next and what could happen in a given situation.

Section: Primary (5-11yrs) info; Secondary (11-16yrs) info

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Activity/strategy name and materials required	How to do the activity	Key principles for doing the activity and comments
Sequencing pictures Sets of sequencing pictures; Question mark card (optional).	1. Put the pictures in order so that you can easily show them to the child one at a time; 2. Show the child the first picture in the sequence; 3. Ask them to tell you what's happening in the picture; 4. Then ask them to imagine what might happen next. To show this visually, put a card with a large question mark on it to the right of the picture; 5. When the child has suggested a sensible thing that might happen next, show them the next card in the sequence; 6. If there are differences between what the card shows and the child's suggestion, discuss why this might be; 7. Repeat for all the cards in the sequence.	When working with sequencing pictures, always work from left to right, and top to bottom, as this mirrors the direction we use when writing English. Choose your set of pictures carefully - you need sets that show a specific event happening (such as a car driving over a broken bottle and getting a flat tyre) rather than a sequence that develops over an extended time span (e.g. a child growing up, or the changes that happen to a tree during the different seasons).
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