Assessment Tool: Anticipatory guide
Type: formatve (pre-assessment)
Grouping: Individual, whole class
Purpose: This tool will help students develop the big underlying questions leading into a unit of inquiry and study. It will develop prior knowledge and connect it to the current task.
Rationale: This tool will help the teacher assess both prior knowledge on ideas present in the unit and assess preliminary interest in the content as well. This tool can be coupled with other tools such as reflective writing or
debating depending on the task. Anticipation guides are meant to evoke discussion and reflection. The type of statements or questions used isn’t meant to be specific to the text but reflective of the universal themes and ideas of the text (example below). Anticipation guides can also serve as an activation tool.
21CLD connection: This tool can be done the traditional way using paper and pen. However, to add a different element to this tool would be to have students answer the questions and input the responses onto an Excel graph or
even a poll survey. Students will then see how the class as a whole responds to particular questions. This can open the classroom to more questions as why something may be so polarized. This would also provide the teacher with
immediate assessment on what students know or believe regarding the questions.
Example:
This is an anticipatory guide I used for George Orwell's 1984.
Grouping: Individual, whole class
Purpose: This tool will help students develop the big underlying questions leading into a unit of inquiry and study. It will develop prior knowledge and connect it to the current task.
Rationale: This tool will help the teacher assess both prior knowledge on ideas present in the unit and assess preliminary interest in the content as well. This tool can be coupled with other tools such as reflective writing or
debating depending on the task. Anticipation guides are meant to evoke discussion and reflection. The type of statements or questions used isn’t meant to be specific to the text but reflective of the universal themes and ideas of the text (example below). Anticipation guides can also serve as an activation tool.
21CLD connection: This tool can be done the traditional way using paper and pen. However, to add a different element to this tool would be to have students answer the questions and input the responses onto an Excel graph or
even a poll survey. Students will then see how the class as a whole responds to particular questions. This can open the classroom to more questions as why something may be so polarized. This would also provide the teacher with
immediate assessment on what students know or believe regarding the questions.
Example:
This is an anticipatory guide I used for George Orwell's 1984.
Source: Retrieved from: http://www.mrjeffrey.com/English%20IV/1984/Anticipation_Guide__1984.doc