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Engage your students with this fun and focused reading comprehension lesson on making predictions, using the charming animated short film Hey Deer! This interactive activity helps learners develop essential inference and prediction skills by pausing at key points in the story and asking: What might happen next?

Students watch the film in stages, use visual and contextual clues to make predictions, and then check their thinking against what actually happens — building both comprehension and critical thinking in an accessible, enjoyable way.

What’s Included:
Full lesson slide presentation (editable ActivInspre and PDF)

Direct link to the short film Hey Deer (YouTube)

Scaffolded prediction worksheet tables:
“What’s happening? → What do you predict? → What really happened?”

Guided discussion questions

Plenary partner-share activity to encourage reflection and dialogue

Key Features:
Aligned with the National Curriculum (UK): Making predictions from details stated and implied

Uses a visually rich animated film — perfect for focusing on inference

Reinforces core comprehension strategies in a creative format

Builds oracy, reasoning, and written responses

Encourages metacognition through compare-and-contrast predictions

Ideal for whole-class teaching, guided reading groups, or independent comprehension tasks

Editable and printable formats included for flexibility

Perfect For:
KS2 English / Literacy (Years 3–6)

Inference and prediction skills practice

Comprehension warm-ups or plenaries

Guided reading, homework, remote learning, or cover lessons

Creative starter for narrative writing units