This content area reading learning activity, ‘Anticipation Guides,’ helps students set a purpose for reading. It is aimed at activating students’ prior knowledge about a topic, helping them set a purpose for learning and kindling their interest in the topic.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Anticipation Guides,’ features a list of statements pertaining to a particular topic in a piece of text students are going to read. It is aimed at activating students’ prior knowledge about a topic, helping them set a purpose for learning, and kindling their interest in the topic.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Did I Achieve My Purpose?’ helps students identify a purpose for reading. Then, once students have finished reading, they write an explanation of whether or not their purpose was achieved.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Question/Answer,’ helps students achieve their purpose for reading. It has students generate questions before reading and answer the questions as they go through the text.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Question/Answer/Reaction,’ helps students achieve their purpose for reading. It has students generate questions before reading, answer the questions as they go through the text, and record their reaction to the answers after reading.
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