Ask yourself these questions to help yourself make a good prediction: Does your prediction connect what you know with information in the text or image? Did you make an educated guess, not a "wild" guess? Do your predictions change as you read more and get more information that doesn't match your earlier prediction? Did you predict what might happen (a 'crystal ball' kind of prediction) OR what the text or image is preparing you for ('predicting the moves of the text')? Did you use keywords in the text structure to help yourself make predictions? (Example: If the text contains the words, "for instance," you can expect to find examples.)