Anticipation Guide

How do I use it?

• Create questions for the Anticipation Guide based on a given article or video, or use one of the Ready-to-Use Anticipation Guides created for Let's Talk Science content (see right).

• Provide students with an Anticipation Guide at the beginning of the class.
• Students complete the first part of the Anticipation Guide activity before they read the selected article or view the selected video.
• Students answer answer the questions by marking a true or false (T/F) in the Before column of the Anticipation Guide.
• Once students have answered the questions, they they read the article or view the video.
• After reading or viewing , students mark true or false (T/F) in the After column of the Anticipation Guide.
• Students find and write evidence from the article or video that supports their thinking, using the space below each statement.
• Once completed these Anticipation Guides can be used in a variety of ways:
• Handed in to the teacher to provide a formative assessment prior to starting studies about the topic featured in the article or video.
• Students pair up and share their responses with their partner and discuss their responses.
• Have a class discussion on the responses and the information presented in the article or video.

Variations

• Model how to fill out an Anticipation Guide and find evidence in a text or video by completing an Anticipation Guide on an overhead or white board with the class.
• Have students develop their own Anticipation Guide questions based on a reading or video. These student-developed Anticipation Guides can be shared with other students.

Extensions

• Have students do additional external research to support or refute the claims and information in the article or video.