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Before Reading Activity:  Anticipation Guide

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An anticipation guide (Rozelle and Scearce 2009) can be introduced as a pre-reading activity that requires students to draw upon their prior knowledge to make connections to the text to be read.  The guide can further engage the interest of the potential reader in the topic of the text.  Questions and statements are provided that require the reader to agree/disagree or respond yes/no, and with variations on the guide, the reader might be asked to explain why s/he agrees or disagrees with the statement.  Once the tasks on the guide have been completed, the reader will have a morsel of knowledge regarding the passage topic to wet the reader's appetite which will aid in comprehension.

 

Anticipation guides can be used as after-reading activities as well.  Once the reader has completed the reading of the text, s/he will return to the guide to determine if opinions or prior knowledge have been changed after reading the passage.  This exploration can then be reinforced through a writing activity, if desired. 

 

Anticipation Guide Template from Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy by Jan Rozzelle and Carol Scearce, 2009. (Click on the highlighted link and a fillable PDF will open from the Solution Tree website.)  The template can also be accessed via this link, Anticipation Guide Template.

 

Anticipation Guides are also presented within the work of other experts in the field:  Cris Tovani's I Read It But I Don't Get It (2001) and Do I Really Have to Teach Reading? (2004), Kylene Beers' When Kids Can't Read What Teachers Can Do (2003), Harvey and Goudvis' Strategies That Work:  Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement (2007), and Kelly Gallagher's Deeper Reading (2004).

 

Rozzelle, J. and Scearce, C. 2009. Power tools for adolescent literacy. Bloomington, Indiana:  Solution Tree.

http://go.solution-tree.com/literacy/Reproducibles_PTAL.html 

 

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