Anticipation+Guide

Laura Gill EDU 6653 and 6627

1. Identify the strategy: The strategy I chose to work with for my pre-reading strategy is an anticipation guide. An anticipation guide is a series of vague ethical statements or questions that you ask students to ponder prior to reading the text. My anticipation guide is a list of statements that I ask students to write whether they agree or disagree with the statement. Clearly the statements are open ended and have no one clear cut answer but I am asking the students to give me their first reaction or strongest gut instinct after reading the statement. If you want you can have your students discuss these statements after they have an appropriate amount of time to respond to them.

2. Explain how and why the strategy is useful: This strategy is useful because it allows students a chance to begin to explore the content of the novel they are about to read. This strategy is extremely useful when the content of the text is somewhat controversial. This allows students to ease into thinking about and discussing these subjects. They can begin to wrap their minds around the subject matter before it is presented to them in the text. The strategy is very helpful when the text is theme heavy. The exploration of various topics within the text helps students to become acquainted with the themes so that when they see them presented throughout the course of the novel they will already know that it is important.

3. Additional information can be found at: http://www.adlit.org/strategies/19712/ http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/readingliterature/readingstrategies/ anticipation_guide.htm