In this lesson, the students will engage in “Fishing for Syllables” activity to learn syllables. The class will also read a book of teacher's choice in the class to learn how to use prediction as an effective reading strategy. A prediction is a good guess about what will happen next in a story. It is an essential reading strategy that we always introduce early in the school year. Predicting involves more than trying to figure out what happens next. As students find evidence to form hunches, they