When determining what and how to provide Previewing for struggling students, you will first need to consider the learning strategies, content, and processes identified by the Learning Goal(s) of each Learning Activity. Learning Strategies refer to the way that you want students to think about knowledge and text, as well as how you want them to process it and include Distributed Summarizing, Reading Comprehension Instruction, and Higher Order Thinking strategies and processes.
Previewing Learning Strategies is not just going over what is coming up in a lesson, but involves specific strategies that prepare students to learn the content and concepts prior to lesson instruction so that they are prepared and motivated to learn alongside their peers.
When previewing a learning strategy, demonstrate how to use it, provide guided practice, and provide independent practice time with known material before expecting students to use the strategy independently.
