阅读教学专家Neil J．Anderson在他编写的《积极英语阅读教程》一书中对“预测”是这样解释的：Good readers make predictions before they read. They use what they know about the topic to guess what the reading will be about. Using this skill can help you to better understand what you will read.预测可以激活读者关于话题的背景图式，帮助读者做好阅读的准备，让读者更加主动地参与到阅读过程中去。读者在不断的新的预测和对旧的预测的修正中能够一直保持对阅读的专注和热情。
