Activating Schema

Before Reading Pack

Included in this Pack:
What do you KNOW about? Use before reading fiction
texts with younger learners. Students can draw & write
their responses. (pg. 2)
What do you KNOW about? Use before reading
nonfiction texts with younger learners. Students can
draw & write their responses. (pg. 3)
KWL Chart- Use before and after reading texts. (pg. 4)

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fiction and nonfiction
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 fiction texts
Directions: Look at the front cover and read the title. Then make a list of things you already know
about the topic.
What do you KNOW about
_________________________?
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 nonfiction texts
Directions: Look through the book at the text features (such as titles, photographs, or bold words).
Then make a list of what you already know about the topic.
What do you KNOW about
_________________________?
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Directions: Look through the book at the text features (such as titles, photographs, or bold words). Make a list of what you already know about the topic and
what you want to know before reading. After reading, write some things you learned in the last column.

What you already What you What you

KNOW WANT to know LEARNED
about __________________

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