Before-Reading Strategies
Wish You Well

Open House
Gives the students an opportunity to talk to each other about segments of a short story, chapter, or poem and predict what will happen next. They will make inferences and generalizations about the characters, setting, mood/tone, plot/action, conflicts, and point of view by discussing the segments.

Probable Passage 1
Gives students practice in predicting what a passage will be about. They will also learn to activate prior knowledge when they approach a reading assignment. They will further develop their skill at monitoring their own reading comprehension and will develop their understanding of narrative conventions.

Probable Passage 2
Enables students to stop and make predictions prior to reading as well as encourages students to reflect on what they have read.

Story Impressions
Students form an impression of the chapters from a list of words, but are not able to create entire episodes that they will encounter in reading.

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