Anticipation Guides

What is it?

A tool to help students engage their brains and read with purpose.

What should I use it for?

“Attention is the first step in learning. During the input stage of learning, the brain has to let in the new content. First we have to pay attention. We cannot learn, remember, or understand what we don’t first give our attention to. Note that beginning a lesson by simply announcing that you are going to start the lesson will not activate the brain's learning apparatus.”

Zaretta Hammond, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain

Anticipation/Predication Guides

Use anticipation guides before digging into a text to preview the themes, controversies and major questions posed by the text.

What does it look like?

Here is an extensive overview and examples from the The National Behaviour Support Service (Ireland)