15 action-packed stories invite students to infer, visualize, and summarize in order to predict the ending of each story. Students will read the short story, then write or discuss their predictions about the story's ending. To make their prediction, students need to analyze character, read for details, understnad cause and effect, make inferences, and summarize as they read. Each reproducible story comes with a teacher page that includes before- and after- reading suggestions, writing and discussion nprompts, and a vocabulary list. Reproducible. 80 pages. Grades 4-8.