Determine what work needs to be done prior to the successful reading of a text. Preview the text and connect to or build background knowledge by looking both inside and outside the text.
Interpreting and Analyzing Nonlinguistic Representations
Image Walk
Anticipation Guides
30 Second Expert
Concept Attainment
Connecting Graphics to Accompanying Text
Making Connections Through Language
Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World
Analyzing Text Structure
Three-Stage Main Idea Predictions
Setting the Purpose (Elementary)
Establishing Purpose of Reading (Secondary)