Next-Step Predictor Answer Key

Students read short “story snapshots” and use their reasoning skills to predict what will likely happen next. Each passage ends on a suspenseful moment, encouraging learners to combine clues, background knowledge, and character behavior to infer the next event. Because no answer is explicitly stated, students practice forming logical, evidence-grounded predictions. The varied scenarios-lost balloons, scratched lockers, tense backstage moments, storms, and gym-bag mysteries-keep engagement high. This worksheet strengthens reading comprehension by teaching students how narrative sequences unfold.

Curriculum-Matched Skills:

Prediction Skills – Inferring Future Events

Reading Comprehension – Using Clues to Extend a Story

Logical Reasoning – Connecting Details to Outcomes

Creative Thinking – Constructing Likely Scenarios

This worksheet is part of our Making Inferences Worksheets collection.