With every new text I show the students in my placement classroom, there is a great deal of preparation before we actually begin reading. I am at a low income school where homework is not realistically expected to be done, so nearly everything that we do takes place in the classroom. There level of preparation is dependent upon the grade and literature. Many textbooks give some background information before stories, but it is not always as much as I would like to give the students and with other books, I must supply all preparation myself.
This template gives information on why providing background information before reading is important. By preparing students for a text, we allow them to explore their own connections and biases to the material and gives teachers an opportunity to make the purpose of the reading clear. I think these are both paramount; when students have an opportunity to form a relationship with a text, they are more likely to find some investment in it and be more likely to learn. The second aspect of providing purpose is also crucial to students caring about material. It needs to be clear what the objectives are. How can a student learn an objective if they do not know they are supposed to be? Teaching with intention is necessary and this an aspect of achieving that.
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