Pre-reading PredictionsThis strategy is useful for helping students activate prior knowledge and make predictions about a text's content. Students use vocabulary to predict the content of a reading selection.
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How do I use it?
1. Before students read a text, identify 15-30 colorful, unusual, and/or unfamiliar words that the author uses.
2. Use a chart to organize these words in columns, according to parts of speech. In other words, all of the nouns should be listed in one column, all of the verbs in another, and so on.
3. Have the students examine this list of words and then work in small groups both to review the meanings of the familiar words and guess about meaning of the unfamiliar words.
4. Looking at all of the words, have students predict what the text might be about.
5. Have students read the text. Then have them discuss or write about whether their predictions were correct or needed to be revised.
2. Use a chart to organize these words in columns, according to parts of speech. In other words, all of the nouns should be listed in one column, all of the verbs in another, and so on.
3. Have the students examine this list of words and then work in small groups both to review the meanings of the familiar words and guess about meaning of the unfamiliar words.
4. Looking at all of the words, have students predict what the text might be about.
5. Have students read the text. Then have them discuss or write about whether their predictions were correct or needed to be revised.
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