Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Anticipation Guides

Anticipation Guides are pre-reading activities designed to activate students' prior knowledge about a book's topic. It can be used for either naraitive or expository text. The idea is to prepare statements concerning the topic. A few statements need to be true and a few false. Before reading, students choose which statements are true and which ones are false. After reading, students decide whether they were correct in there thoughts or not.

Procedures:
1 Identify several major concepts related to the reading assignment.
2 Develop a list of 4 to 6 statements.
3 Discuss the anticipation guide.
4 Read the text.
5 Discuss each statement again.

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