70. ANTICIPATION GUIDES (Writing, Discussion, Reading, Collaboration)
Description: An Anticipation Guide is a strategy that is used before reading to activate students’ prior knowledge and create interest about a new topic.
Application: Use this process as an introduction to a reading.
Process: Predetermine the big ideas of the reading. From those ideas, write six to eight statements that elicit an “Agree” or “Disagree” response; include statements that students have a good chance of knowing by using prior knowledge and statements that will introduce the big ideas to them. Avoid statements meant to trick students and have at least one statement in which there are many possible answers. Make sure that the statements can be answered either by the reading or the discussion that follows. Once students individually have completed the guide (Addendum below), place the students in pairs so that they may compare and contrast their ideas.
Description: An Anticipation Guide is a strategy that is used before reading to activate students’ prior knowledge and create interest about a new topic.
Application: Use this process as an introduction to a reading.
Process: Predetermine the big ideas of the reading. From those ideas, write six to eight statements that elicit an “Agree” or “Disagree” response; include statements that students have a good chance of knowing by using prior knowledge and statements that will introduce the big ideas to them. Avoid statements meant to trick students and have at least one statement in which there are many possible answers. Make sure that the statements can be answered either by the reading or the discussion that follows. Once students individually have completed the guide (Addendum below), place the students in pairs so that they may compare and contrast their ideas.
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70. Anticipation Guides
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70. Anticipation Guides
http://www.schoolimprovement.com
http://www.readwritethink.org