Predicting Outcomes

This engaging reading comprehension worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen prediction, reasoning, and narrative analysis skills through a realistic school carnival story. After reading the passage, students analyze events, character motivations, and context clues to predict what is most likely to happen next, supporting their thinking with evidence from the text.

Learning Goals

• Predicting Outcomes (Grades 4-6): Anticipate logical next events based on story details.
• Analyzing Character Behavior: Use characters’ actions, choices, and motivations to inform predictions.
• Evidence-Based Reasoning: Support predictions with specific clues from the passage.
• Understanding Narrative Flow: Connect cause-and-effect relationships within a story.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with upper elementary ELA standards.
• Builds Foresight & Logic: Encourages students to think ahead using textual evidence.
• Structured Prediction Questions: Guides students to explain why an outcome is likely.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for reading groups, literacy centers, homework, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students become more thoughtful readers by practicing how to predict outcomes grounded in evidence rather than guesswork. By analyzing narrative cues and character behavior, learners strengthen comprehension, logical reasoning, and critical thinking skills. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with prediction, narrative analysis, and evidence-based thinking.

This worksheet is part of our multiple choice reading passages worksheets collection.