Strategy 1

Your Name: Erin Mcintosh

Name of Strategy: Anticipation Guide          

 Source: Journal of Family and Consumer Science Education, Vol. 23, No.2, Fall/Winter 2005

 Link:

http://www.natefacs.org/JFCSE/v23no2/v23no2Bell.pdf

Description: This strategy suggests that the teacher make an “Anticipation Guide” for students to use before reading text.  The anticipation guide would have several facts listed with a “Before” column and a “During” column.  Before reading the text the student would read the facts and mark “true” or “false” in the “Before” column.  Then the student would read the passage.  They would then mark “true” or “false” in the “During” column as they read the facts in the passage.

SCOS:  Foods and Nutrition: Meats, Poultry, and Seafood

 Why will this work and how will it help students to learn?

The lack of reading and comprehension of material is a concern for most teachers.  By using this strategy, teachers can evaluate prior knowledge by discussing the answers the students gave before they read.  Students are then held responsible for finding certain facts in their reading and understanding those facts well enough to mark their validity.  When I use this strategy, I would probably have the students take the facts they were wrong about and write an essay or summary explaining what they learned from the passage.

 

 

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