Pre-Reading Activities

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Description

Pre-reading activities are tasks completed before reading in order to activate prior knowledge, establish purpose, surface key vocabulary, or prepare attention for important ideas. They are useful when learners need orientation before engaging the text itself.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• A specific purpose tied to the upcoming text
• Prompts that prepare attention rather than duplicate the reading

Constraints

• Overlong pre-reading can delay the actual text unnecessarily

Target Learning Goals

• Prepare comprehension by activating knowledge and setting expectations.

Affordances

• Activation
• Retrieval Practice
• Pre-Reading Questioning

Claims

Related Elements

• Prior Knowledge Activation
• Assigned Readings
• Discussion Prompt

Patterns That Use This Element

• Flipped Learning
• Discussion-Based Learning

Examples

• Prediction prompts, quick recalls, vocabulary previews, and question generation before reading.

Key Sources

• Graves, M. F., Juel, C., & Graves, B. B. (2007). Teaching reading in the 21st century. Allyn & Bacon.

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