Anticipation Guide

What is it?

An anticipation guide is a set of statements about the text that students respond to and discuss before, during, and after reading the text.

What is the purpose?

An anticipation guide helps activate students’ prior knowledge and stimulate predictions about the text. Helps students focus on main ideas in the text.

How do I create an anticipation guide?

1. Analyze the material to be read and determine main ideas.

2. Write the ideas in short, clear, declarative statements.

3. Put the statements into a format that will elicit anticipation and predictions.

How do I implement the anticipation guide?

1. Give anticipation guide to students and have them predict if the statements are “true” or “false”.

2. Discuss students’ predictions and anticipations before reading the selection.

3. Assign the text selection. Have students evaluate the statements in relation to the authors’ intent and purpose.

4. Discuss readers’ predictions with author’s intended meaning.

5. Find information from the text that supports the authors intended meaning.