Anticipation Guide: Understanding Text
A Grade 6 ELA worksheet designed to introduce and practice the use of anticipation guides as a reading comprehension strategy.
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Anticipation Guide: Understanding Text
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An anticipation guide helps you think about what you already know or believe about a topic BEFORE you read. This can help you better understand the text. Read each statement below. In the 'Before Reading' column, mark whether you agree or disagree with the statement. Then, read the passage 'The Wonders of Photosynthesis'. After reading, revisit each statement and mark 'Agree' or 'Disagree' in the 'After Reading' column. Finally, explain how the text supported or changed your initial thoughts.
The Wonders of Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is an amazing process that happens in plants. It's how plants make their own food! Think of plants as tiny chefs, and the sun as their oven. Plants use sunlight, water from the soil, and a gas called carbon dioxide from the air to create sugar (their food) and oxygen. This oxygen is what we, and many other living things, breathe to survive. The green color in plants comes from a special pigment called chlorophyll, which is essential for capturing sunlight. Without photosynthesis, there would be no plants, and without plants, there would be no food or oxygen for most life on Earth. It's a truly vital process!
Anticipation Guide Statements
Statement
Before Reading: Agree
Before Reading: Disagree
After Reading: Agree
After Reading: Disagree
1. Plants get all their food from the soil.
2. Sunlight is important for plants to grow.
3. Plants produce the air we breathe.
4. All plants are green because of chlorophyll.
5. Photosynthesis is only important for plants.
1. Choose one statement where your 'Before Reading' answer changed after reading the passage. Explain why your thinking changed, using evidence from the text.
2. Choose one statement where your 'Before Reading' answer stayed the same after reading the passage. Explain why the text supported your initial thoughts, using evidence from the text.