Anticipation-Reaction+Guide


 * Anticipation-Reaction Guide (A-R Guide)**
 * The A-R Guide is a teacher-prepared worksheet that students use to respond to carefully crafted statements. This is done both before and again after reading.
 * The main purpose for using the guide is to alert students to currently held ideas and attitudes, which might differ from those presented in the reading selection.
 * The effectiveness of the method depends on the teacher's knowledge of the particular group of students' background of information and experience.

**Preparing an A-R Guide:**
 * 1) Review the reading selection you plan to use to identify information or attitudes that may differ from what students might expect to read based on prior knowledge and experience.
 * 2) Write statements to which students will be asked to agree or disagree with before they read and again after they read.
 * 3) Use these statements to create an A-R Guide worksheet such as this example --> [[file:A-R Guide.doc|A-R Guide.doc]]This guide was created to accompany an article called "Vaulting Vampires", which you can read here -->


 * Steps to Using the A-R Guide: **
 * 1) Pass out the A-R Guide to students with directions to write their responses (agree or disagree) to each statement.
 * 2) Once completed, have students read the selection. After reading, they should respond again to the A-R statements.
 * 3) Begin discussion by asking shether anyone changed his or her responses after reading the selection.


 * Tips for Using A-R Guides: **
 * Write the A-R statements so that students have a reasonable basis for agreeing or disagreeing with each.
 * Statements can be based on facts that can be verified, however, consider attitude-type questions as well since these are more likely to elicit experience-based connections with the new information in the selection.
 * As a variation, have students write the page number on which they found confirmation for or a difference from the prereading belief OR have students select one of the statements as the topic for a brief postreading essay.
 * A-R Guides can be used with fiction as well as nonfiction.