I really enjoyed this chapter a lot. It gave me great methods to help my students and make Language Arts more exciting. Instead of just reading to the students and asking questions, this chapter really made me think of creative and critical thinking ways to get the students more engaged in the texts we are reading in class. My favorite method is the Anticipation Guides. An Anticipation Guide is a tool used in the classroom to get students thinking critically before they even read the passage. It "[i] s a set of generalizations related to the theme of a selections. Students decide whether they agree or disagree with each statement in the guide" (Beers,2003, p. 74). I really liked this method because I think that high school students would find this really helpful before they started reading something. It would maybe make them more eager to read and find out what it is about.
Another method I liked that was mentioned in this chapter was Probable Passage. This is a method where you pick key words from the selection and present them to the students. The students will then put them into categories and come up with their own version or prediction of what will happen in the story. I found this method to be very intriguing because I had never heard of it before. I think it is the best way to get people talking and get creative juices flowing. Although all the methods mentioned in this chapter are awesome those two are my favorites.
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