Background Essay: Previewing Text
Teacher Susan Christy (Highlands Middle School, Ft. Thomas, Ky.) is teaching a lesson on the Neolithic Revolution, using scaffolding and differentiation to address the needs of students with literacy challenges. One of those strategies is to prepare students for reading by guiding them in the use of text features to establish prior knowledge and make predictions before they read a section of the textbook.
This video was originally part of a multimedia professional development resource, Literacy Without Limits, produced by KET in 2007 in collaboration with the Kentucky Department of Education.