Before-reading goals and predictions help Grade 7 ELA students prepare for comprehension by activating relevant background knowledge, establishing a clear reading purpose, and making thoughtful predictions before engaging with a text. This resource focuses on practical reading strategies for literature and supports students in noticing the details and structural signals that shape meaning.

Build a Purpose Before Reading

Students work with strategies that connect prior knowledge to upcoming reading. They identify a clear purpose for reading and consider which details they should watch for as they move through a text. This approach gives students a specific focus before they begin interpreting information or literary elements.

Make Predictions from Text Signals

The activities develop prediction skills using titles, opening paragraphs, and repeated terms. Students make initial predictions and refine them as they consider additional clues. They also examine genre conventions and structural signals that can indicate how information is organized, helping them approach different texts with greater awareness of what to expect.

What Students Practice

• Activating relevant background knowledge before reading.
• Setting a reading purpose connected to specific details.
• Making and refining predictions from titles and opening paragraphs.
• Using repeated terms as clues when anticipating meaning.
• Recognizing genre conventions and structural signals.
• Applying before-reading strategies to prepare for comprehension.

Included for Instruction and Practice

The resource includes the student worksheet activities, a Student Notes & Lesson Summary supplement, and a separate Teacher Guide with Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes. The worksheet uses multiple-choice questions, true-false questions, short-answer responses, a reading passage, matching, a cloze passage, an essay, and a Did You Know component to provide varied opportunities to work with the targeted reading skills.

Classroom Use

Use this Grade 7 reading strategies resource as guided practice before a literature or reading lesson, independent student work, or a structured opportunity to reinforce prediction and purposeful reading. The accompanying notes and teacher guidance can support lesson preparation, classroom discussion, and review of common mistakes while students develop more deliberate habits for approaching texts.

With its focused treatment of reading goals, predictions, background knowledge, genre conventions, and structural signals, this Ontario ELA worksheet gives teachers a practical resource for strengthening the before-reading stage of comprehension.