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Anticipation/Reaction Guides. A Pre Reading Strategy. By: Sarah McCready. Description. AKA: Prediction Guide, Anticipation Prediction Guide, Anticipation/Reaction Guide A teacher prepared worksheet that students use to respond to statements before reading and again after reading
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Anticipation/Reaction Guides A Pre Reading Strategy By: Sarah McCready
Description • AKA: Prediction Guide, Anticipation Prediction Guide, Anticipation/Reaction Guide • A teacher prepared worksheet that students use to respond to statements before reading and again after reading • Often structured as a series of statements with which the students can choose to agree or disagree • Use with fiction as well as non-fiction • Use on an individual basis or small groups
Why Use it? • Focuses on major ideas in the text • Activates prior knowledge • Stimulates curiosity about the text and motivates students to read • Requires students to justify or change answers based on reading • Reverse misconceptions
How to Use it • Identify the major concepts you want students to learn from the reading • Prepare a list of statements about the topic • Statements can be based on facts or be centered on opinions
Steps • Step 1. Distribute the A-R Guide to students, with directions to write their responses to each statement. • Step 2. Students then are directed to read, and, after reading, respond again to the A-R Guide statements. • Step 3. Begin discussion by asking whether anyone changed their responses to any of the A-R Guide statements after they had read the selection.
Teaching Tips • Write statements that focus on the ideas in the text that you want your students to think about • Write statements for which information can be located in the text to either support or oppose each statements • Make sure students understand this activity is used to jog their memory and not serve as a true/false test
Adapt or Differentiate It • Use the guide as a preparation for a preliminary discussion on one or more of the ideas as a way to introduce a text • Develop one or more of the statements as writing prompts • Have students write the page or paragraph number on which they found confirmation for or a difference from their pre reading belief • Allow students to create their own guides
Content Examples • Social Studies- Ku Klux Klan 1. The KKK was founded in the 1900s. 2. The KKK has terrorized not only African Americans, but Jews, Catholics, and union organizers. 3. A number of high-ranking politicians have been members of the KKK.
Content Examples • Language Arts- Macbeth • You never should compromise your values. • You always should listen to your spouse. • Greed only leads to bad things.
Content Examples • Math-Triangles 1. A triangle with three equal angles is called equiangular. 2. The sum of the interior angles of a triangle equals 180 degrees. 3. A triangle can have more than one obtuse angle.
Activity • Assemble into small groups • Begin the worksheet by filling in the Before Reading column • Read the article on Osteoporosis • Complete the worksheet by filling in the After Reading Column
Sources • http://literacyleaders.com/Study_Reading/CALPrerdg/body_calprerdg.html • http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/subjects/elarts/reading/literacy/summerinstitute/2006/anticipationguides.ppt#1 • http://www.indiana.edu/%7el517/anticipation_guides.htm • http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/anticipate.htm • http://teachers.santee.k12.ca.us/Carl/Document/Literacy%20Lane/Anticipation%20Reaction%20Guides.doc