Ashley,
I completely agree with you about the Anticipation Guides. I think this is a very powerful tool for students to use as they formulate what they think is going to happen. Giving the students something to think about encourages them to become actively involved in the prediction process. As Beers reminds us throughout this chapter, when students are actively involved in predicting/anticipating what is going to happen they develop a deeper level of comprehension. Waiting to the end of the story to see what happens leaves a lot of opportunities to be engaged in the reading process behind.
After reading this chapter, I began to think about how I read and realized that I do a lot of predicting. Even if I end up making the wrong prediction, my comprehension level has increased because I've become involved in the process of reading versus just reading to find out what happens.
Predicting or frontloading meaning gives students of all learning levels an opportunity to participate. Nobody knows for sure ahead of time if a prediction comes true or not. Everybody seems to have an equal opportunity to predict.
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