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, ‘Predicting and Confirming,’ has students make predictions and review outcomes of a text. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text by having them create prediction statements and then find information that either confirmed or contradicted their predictions.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Surveying the Text,’ helps students set a purpose for learning. It is an important pre-reading strategy to use when reading nonfiction text and allows students to have some measure of control over the text.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Visual Reading Guide,’ provides struggling readers with a framework for previewing text features. It is aimed at helping students connect with a lot of prior knowledge to make meaning of the text.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Word Sorts,’ prepares students for the information that will be covered in the text. It allows students to share what they already know on the topic, provide a purpose for reading the text and increase their curiosity on the topic.
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