Anticipation Guide
Outcomes Met: Grade 5 Math 5.N.11., Grade 5 Science 5-4-14
Anticipation guides can be used for any content area. Anticipation Guides allow readers to make predictions about pieces of text or concepts and activate prior knowledge. As students make predictions, it is also a good idea for them to state why they made the prediction that they did. Once students have read the text or learned about the specific concept, students then return to their anticipation guide and reflect on what they had written previously to their knew knowledge and state how their opinions have changed and why. For example, in science, you could hand out an anticipation guide, which lists a few statements about how clouds are formed. Students state whether they think the statement is true or false and explain why they believe it to be so. Once you have taught the lesson or students have read about the formation of clouds, have students return to their anticipation guide and have them reflect on their initial thoughts and record how their thoughts have changed and why. 1. Give students a topic 2. Hand out anticipation guides ( there are many different types of guides, pick one that suits the topic that you are learning about) 3. Have students write down their thoughts about the topic, what they think will happen, how they think clouds, for example, are formed etc. 4. Have students read the text (or get information from lesson). 5. Have students go back to their anticipation guide and reflect on their initial responses, how they have changed and why. 6. Come together as a class to discuss initial responses and responses after new knowledge was attained.
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