ANTICIPATION GUIDE
Instructions​
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Consider the topic in the text you are preparing students to read and what beliefs or prior knowledge students might have about the topic.
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Write general statements that students can agree or disagree with or mark as true or false. Construct sentences that will challenge beliefs.
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Prior to reading the text, students read the statements and mark their response. Teachers can encourage discussion without revealing their thinking, opinion or answer.
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After reading, students revisit their anticipation guide and indicate whether they agree or disagree with the statements.
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Teachers encourage students to discuss how their thinking changed or didn't change using the text or learning experience to explain their thinking.
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​THE RESEARCH
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The IES Guide recommends strategies that engage students in active reading and comprehension monitoring (2022, What Works Clearinghouse). The anticipation guide does this by encouraging students to make predictions and reflect on their understanding of discipline specific concepts.
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Explicitly setting learning intentions and having students interact with concepts prior to reading aligns with Hattie’s work about activating prior knowledge and setting learning intentions (2018, Hattie).