Chapter 6

A major way students to face what they are reading is by simply getting them to think about what they already know. This is also called activating their prior knowledgeable. This chapter is strongly focused on who to get dependent readers to become independent readers by using anticipation guides. "These guides activate students' prior knowledge, encourage them to make a personal connection to what they will be reading, and give them a chance to become an active participant with the text before they begin reading. I feel that these are so much productive than KWL charts. They actually take the text and apply it to the reader's knowledge, rather than a KWL chart that only uses the broadest topics possible. Even so, unless the text or novel is not going to relate to the student right away, it will be difficult to get a student engaged in this activity.