Activating Strategies provides opportunities at the beginning of lessons to prepare students for success during lesson instruction. Learn to use Activating Strategies to immediately engage students, focus attention, and establish essential connections for new learning. Discover many new strategies that support students with connecting new learning with their background knowledge, as well as gaining practical techniques for building background knowledge when students have had limited experiences with prerequisite content. Gain new knowledge on how to link Activating Strategies with vocabulary strategies to set the stage for learning.