In using Anticipation guides I have had very good luck with bringing attention to the students about the subject and receiving great participation from the students. The website above explains how an anticipation guide is used as a pre-reading strategy to help the students get interested in the subject along with seeing what the student already knows about the subject. While I have used several anticipation guides in the past, I have learned there are several ways of introducing an anticipation guide. My experience has been to use it with the whole class and have the anticipation guide used as group work. So far my students have not felt pressured in participating and I have always been able to get full participation from all the students. I am finding out how important reading is to the students for social studies I am working on a short book for the students for a lesson that will help tie in the culture of Kenyan African nomads of present day. I have had help with anticipation guides using the textbook and having the resources already printed out. Anticipation guides made for a much easier presentation to go along with my lessons as I was teaching along with the textbook. I am in the process of creating my own anticipation guide to get students excited about this book. The title of this book that will be read to the students is called Facing the Lion. This book is about a boy who grows up in Maasai on the African Savanna and tells the story about how he was educated and winds up coming to America to finish his college years and becomes a Professor at Harvard College. Every year this man named Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton goes back to Africa for a few months time to live in the village where he grew up and becomes a nomad for the time he stays in Africa. Coming up with anticipation guide questions is becoming a great challenge. The difficult time I am having is that the host teacher where I am student teaching wants me to play a recording of her reading the text, which I feel I could do just as well, but she wants to experiment with the idea of being able to re-teach and use this process for next year to see how this works while I am teaching. lekuton, J., & Viola, H. (2003). Facing the lion. Washington D.C.: National Geographic.
started by Paul Pelc on 12 Mar 12
In using Anticipation guides I have had very good luck with bringing attention to the students about the subject and receiving great participation from the students. The website above explains how an anticipation guide is used as a pre-reading strategy to help the students get interested in the subject along with seeing what the student already knows about the subject. While I have used several anticipation guides in the past, I have learned there are several ways of introducing an anticipation guide. My experience has been to use it with the whole class and have the anticipation guide used as group work. So far my students have not felt pressured in participating and I have always been able to get full participation from all the students.
I am finding out how important reading is to the students for social studies I am working on a short book for the students for a lesson that will help tie in the culture of Kenyan African nomads of present day. I have had help with anticipation guides using the textbook and having the resources already printed out. Anticipation guides made for a much easier presentation to go along with my lessons as I was teaching along with the textbook. I am in the process of creating my own anticipation guide to get students excited about this book. The title of this book that will be read to the students is called Facing the Lion. This book is about a boy who grows up in Maasai on the African Savanna and tells the story about how he was educated and winds up coming to America to finish his college years and becomes a Professor at Harvard College. Every year this man named Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton goes back to Africa for a few months time to live in the village where he grew up and becomes a nomad for the time he stays in Africa. Coming up with anticipation guide questions is becoming a great challenge. The difficult time I am having is that the host teacher where I am student teaching wants me to play a recording of her reading the text, which I feel I could do just as well, but she wants to experiment with the idea of being able to re-teach and use this process for next year to see how this works while I am teaching.
lekuton, J., & Viola, H. (2003). Facing the lion. Washington D.C.: National Geographic.