Answer:
Prediction strategy improves;
- Active thought process
- Critical thinking
- Active reading
- Improves Concentration
- Finding answers to the question (problem solving)
All the above factors improve student's overall comprehension.
Explanation:
Prediction strategy is a technique to predict what will happen next or throughout the text by using text title, chapter names, headings, sub-headings, and pictures.
Prediction encourages the students to carefully think, and analyze the available information and prior knowledge to ask questions and find possible answers to those questions.
It also improves recalling and using prior knowledge learned from books, society, and personal experiences. This will make students actively involved with the reading process.
Making predictions will also encourage and improve students' critical thinking. They will analyze, would make claims, find evidences, and would use trial and error.
In short prediction strategy improves students' concentration, active thinking and reading, critical thinking, use of prior knowledge, and make the reading process interesting and useful.
