Activating Prior Knowledge and Interest

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Activating Prior Knowledge and Interest
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A. Meaningful Learning, Schema, and Motivation

• Get them excited
• Use prediction
• Have them do the asking
• Extend beyond the classroom
• Other classes
• The real world

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B. Arousing Curiosity

• 1. Establishing Problematic Situations and
  Perspectives
• 2. Guided Imagery
• 3. Analogies and Text Previews (Video clip)
• 4. PReP (Prereading Plan)
• Brainstorm initial ideas
• Reflect on association of initial ideas
• Reformulate the knowledge

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C. Making Predictions

• 1. Anticipation Guides
• 2. Previewing (in the text/with an outline)
• DR(L)-TA (insurance letter)
• Choose passage, read, and decide on logical
  stopping points
• Using title and or subheads, have students
  predict content (WHY?)
• Read to initial stopping point confirm/reject
  initial predictions and add new predictions
  (WHY?)
• Continue to end of text

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D. Student-Generated Questions

• 1. ReQuest
• Same as DR-TA except that students pose questions
  they wish to have answered instead of making
  predictions.
• 2. Expectation Outline
• Give title and have students generate an outline
  of possible events/subtopics in the form of
  questions