2.  AKA: Prediction Guide, Anticipation Prediction Guide, Anticipation/Reaction Guide  A teacher prepared worksheet that students use to respond to statements before reading and again after reading  Often structured as a series of statements with which the students can choose to agree or disagree  Use with fiction as well as non-fiction  Use on an individual basis or small groups

3.  Focuses on major ideas in the text  Activates prior knowledge  Stimulates curiosity about the text and motivates students to read  Requires students to justify or change answers based on reading  Reverse misconceptions

4.  Identify the major concepts you want students to learn from the reading  Prepare a list of statements about the topic  Statements can be based on facts or be centered on opinions

5.  Step 1. Distribute the A-R Guide to students, with directions to write their responses to each statement.  Step 2. Students then are directed to read, and, after reading, respond again to the A-R Guide statements.  Step 3. Begin discussion by asking whether anyone changed their responses to any of the A-R Guide statements after they had read the selection.

6.  Write statements that focus on the ideas in the text that you want your students to think about  Write statements for which information can be located in the text to either support or oppose each statements  Make sure students understand this activity is used to jog their memory and not serve as a true/false test

7.  Use the guide as a preparation for a preliminary discussion on one or more of the ideas as a way to introduce a text  Develop one or more of the statements as writing prompts  Have students write the page or paragraph number on which they found confirmation for or a difference from their pre reading belief  Allow students to create their own guides

8.  Social Studies- Ku Klux Klan 1. The KKK was founded in the 1900s. 2. The KKK has terrorized not only African Americans, but Jews, Catholics, and union organizers. 3. A number of high-ranking politicians have been members of the KKK.

9.  Language Arts- Macbeth 1.You never should compromise your values. 2.You always should listen to your spouse. 3.Greed only leads to bad things.

10.  Math-Triangles 1. A triangle with three equal angles is called equiangular. 2. The sum of the interior angles of a triangle equals 180 degrees. 3. A triangle can have more than one obtuse angle.

11.  Assemble into small groups  Begin the worksheet by filling in the Before Reading column  Read the article on Osteoporosis  Complete the worksheet by filling in the After Reading Column

12.  http://literacyleaders.com/Study_Reading/CALPrer dg/body_calprerdg.html http://literacyleaders.com/Study_Reading/CALPrer dg/body_calprerdg.html  http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/subjects/ela rts/reading/literacy/summerinstitute/2006/anticipat ionguides.ppt#1 http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/subjects/ela rts/reading/literacy/summerinstitute/2006/anticipat ionguides.ppt#1  http://www.indiana.edu/%7el517/anticipation_guid es.htm http://www.indiana.edu/%7el517/anticipation_guid es.htm  http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/anticipate. htm http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/anticipate. htm  http://teachers.santee.k12.ca.us/Carl/Document/Li teracy%20Lane/Anticipation%20Reaction%20Guide s.doc