Before-Reading+Strategies

Before-Reading Strategies


 * BEFORE-READING STRATEGIES **

There are several pre-reading strategies that can be effective in the classroom. As the video demonstrated, Story Impressions, Word Splash, and Anticipation Guides are good examples of strategies that help to get students engaged in material, and ready to properly digest the text they are about to read.

The whole idea of this strategy is to give students an opportunity to predict what is going to happen in the story. The teacher creates a list of words from the story that reveal key aspects of the story, including setting, character names or descriptions, plot, and resolution. The student writes the story using these words and phrases. The stories are then shared with the group before the actual story is read.
 * Story Impressions **


 * Procedure: **
 * 1) 1. Create paragraph using word bank
 * 2) 2. A students reads their paragraph to class
 * 3) 3. Read the text
 * 4) 4. Compare, contrast, and correct students’ paragraphs with the text

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 * VIDEO: ** []


 * Word Splash **

Word Splash is a pre-learning strategy. By splashing key words or phrases on the board before the learning experience, students begin thinking about the topic and the teacher has a quick, effective formative assessment of their background knowledge about the topic.


 * Procedure: **
 * 1) 1. Brainstorm, Predict, and Write
 * 2) 2. Explore relationships among words
 * 3) 3. Read text and compare sentences
 * 4) 4. Revise sentences
 * 5) 5. Share with class

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 * VIDEO: ** []

An anticipation guide is a comprehension strategy that is used before reading to activate students' prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic. Before reading, students listen to or read several statements about key concepts presented in the text; they're often structured as a series of statements with which the students can choose to agree or disagree. Anticipation guides stimulate students' interest in a topic and set a purpose for reading.
 * Anticipation Guides **


 * Procedure: **
 * 1) 1. Read statements on worksheet
 * 2) 2. Make predictions (True or False)
 * 3) 3. Read text
 * 4) 4. Check answers and include page reference numbers

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