Mystery Sub Forecast

This worksheet presents a two-part sports mystery where students must make predictions after each section. The story builds suspense around a mysterious substitute player and an important late-game moment. Students use clues about character behavior, tone, and action to anticipate how events may unfold. Each prediction requires written justification to demonstrate strong reasoning.

Predictive thinking helps students follow plot structure and recognize how events influence outcomes. It teaches readers to gather evidence and combine it with prior knowledge to form logical conclusions. Explaining their predictions strengthens students’ ability to support ideas with text clues. This exercise also encourages deeper engagement with character motives and story pacing.

This worksheet is part of our Making Predictions Worksheets collection.