Strategy : Story Impressions

Explanation/purpose : A pre-reading strategy aimed at arousing the curiosity in students and allowing students to anticipate what the stories might be about. They can predict the events of the story they will read by providing them with fragments of the actual content in the form of clue words.

How it works in the classroom : It uses clue words associated with the setting, characters and events in the story to help readers write their own versions of the story prior to reading.

When ? : Before

Weblink for further reading and examples :

http://www.allamericareads.org/lessonplan/strategies/before/storyimp.htm