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Activating Prior Knowledge

Use this collection of teaching resources to help your students activate their prior knowledge before engaging with a new text. The teaching resources in this collection include a lesson plan, a teaching presentation, educational posters, and task cards with activities for students.

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Activate Prior Knowledge Poster

A poster highlighting how to activate prior knowledge when reading a piece of text.

1 page 3 - 6
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint – Activating Prior Knowledge

A 13 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of activating prior knowledge.

13 pages
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Activating Prior Knowledge – Comprehension Strategy Task Cards

A set of 12 task cards to help students activate their prior knowledge before reading.

3 pages 3 - 6
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Activating Prior Knowledge – Comprehension Strategy Poster

A poster explaining how to activate prior knowledge before reading.

1 page K, 1 - 7
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120 Comprehension Strategy Question Cards

A set of 120 open-ended question cards to help students apply comprehension strategies when reading.

40 pages 2 - 6

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