1.++Before+Reading+Strategies

=Before Reading Strategies= -are sometimes known as frontloading -activate background knowledge -connect new to known -are interactive in nature, which allows for students in the know to share with students who are not in the know -can be used as formative assessment for teachers -increase motivation to learn -foster strategic reading and metacognition (thinking about thinking)

**Anticipation Guide**: a strategy that activates prior knowledge by posing provocative statements for students to agree or disagree with.
[|The Greece Central School Disctrict Literacy Website: Anticipation Guides] [|AdLit.org: Anticipation Guide]

Sample Anticipation Guides:

**Knowledge Rating Guide:** a strategy that asks students to analyze their understanding of a word.
[|Knowledge_Rating_Guide.pdf]

Sample Knowledge Rating Guides: [|Africa Knowledge Rating Guide.pdf]