Anticipation Guide
Definition:
"An anticipation guide is a comprehension strategy that is used before reading to activate students' prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic," ("Anticipation Guide," 2014). Before reading the text, several statements about the passage are read to the students. These statements are worded so as the students can agree or disagree with them. This strategy's purpose is to generate student interest in the material, and activate prior knowledge to help them understand the text, ("Anticipation Guide," 2014).
Steps to implement Anticipation Guides:
"An anticipation guide is a comprehension strategy that is used before reading to activate students' prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic," ("Anticipation Guide," 2014). Before reading the text, several statements about the passage are read to the students. These statements are worded so as the students can agree or disagree with them. This strategy's purpose is to generate student interest in the material, and activate prior knowledge to help them understand the text, ("Anticipation Guide," 2014).
Steps to implement Anticipation Guides:
- Generate several statements about the main topics of the text.
- Read the statements to the students, and ask them if they agree or disagree with the statement. Allow time for discussion over their answers.
- Read the text. This can be done individually, as a small group, or out loud to the whole class.
- After the reading, go back to the students' answers on the anticipation guide. Discuss how their answers have changed or stayed the same based on the text read, ("Anticipation Guide," 2014).
Benefits of this Strategy:
- Activate prior knowledge of topic.
- Gives a purpose for the reading.
- Engages all students, ("Anticipation Guides," 2014).
Video 1: This video is an example of an anticipation guide being used in a Middle School Science class. The teacher does a nice job of going through this activity with very detailed instructions. The students are not confused about the process because the teacher is well prepared and detailed in his directions. The instructor first has the students make predictions over several statements based on prior knowledge. He then has the students discuss their answers and the reasons for their answers. Next, the students read several pages in the textbook. The students use what they learned in the reading to keep or change their predictions made earlier. Finally, they have some discussions over their predictions. The teacher uses the class discussion at the end of class to assess the comprehension of the material.
Video 2: This video is an example of an anticipation guide done in a second grade classroom. The teacher starts out by explaining to the students what an anticipation guide is and its purpose. She then goes through some statements with the students and has them decide if they agree or disagree with the statements. This is done before they read the book. The teacher then reads the book to the class and she stops periodically to revisit the statements on the anticipation guide. The class discusses again whether they agree or disagree with these statements using information from the text. At the end of the book, they revisit the statements one more time for discussion.
Writing Component:
Although an anticipation guide is a before reading activity, I would have students do their writing component after they have read the passage. In the writing component, the students would revisit the statements on the anticipation guide after they have read the passage. They would write whether their initial prediction was correct or incorrect using information from the text they just read.
Writing Standard Addressed:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Although an anticipation guide is a before reading activity, I would have students do their writing component after they have read the passage. In the writing component, the students would revisit the statements on the anticipation guide after they have read the passage. They would write whether their initial prediction was correct or incorrect using information from the text they just read.
Writing Standard Addressed:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Sources:
Anticipation Guide. (2014). In Reading Rockets. Retrieved July 14, 2014, from
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/anticipation_guide.
Anticipation Guides. (2014). In All About Adolescent Literacy. Retrieved July 14, 2014, from
http://www.adlit.org/strategies/19712/.
Anticipation Guide. (2014). In Reading Rockets. Retrieved July 14, 2014, from
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/anticipation_guide.
Anticipation Guides. (2014). In All About Adolescent Literacy. Retrieved July 14, 2014, from
http://www.adlit.org/strategies/19712/.