Reading strategies: Anticipating content

The video shows us how children's prior knowledge may be activated before reading a text. Go inside Cathy Doyle's second grade classroom in Evanston, Illinois to observe how Cathy uses the anticipation guide strategy to pique her students' interest in the book they are about to read together, Jin Woo by Eve Bunting. Cathy asks questions designed to activate the kids' prior knowledge and to encourage them to make predictions about what they think will happen in the story. More information on this specific strategy may be found at Reading Rockets: Anticipation guide