Thanks to Laura for this list of creative strategies to use Before-During-After Reading. Not your typical list! Most don't include Woody Allen-inspired activities ;-) Thanks so much, Laura!
Trailfire + Voki mashup -- create a talking avatar that you can add to websites, place on websites you want kids to research and then create a tour guide-led tour.
Tom March and Bernie Dodge were originators of the WebQuest. This is Tom's site and the quality control is evident with ratings according to a strict rubric that requires an inquiry task that is transformative.
Kyle suggested that multigenre projects are excellent for formative assessment because to the reflective process plus artifacts built in.
And here's a great example of the product.
Janell did a good job on this WebQuest on creating a business plan. Would suggest that the rubric needs to be more detailed but, all in all, the model with a small team and each has a role should work well.
I like to add annotations for each site. And, depending on how the reading level of the sites, you may in some cases actually need to add a few questions similar to a reading guide to help kids find what they need. You may need to scaffold the during reading, that is ;-)