Anticipation guides are a before reading and learning strategy. They are a list of statements related to a topic and students indicate if they agree or disagree with each of the statements. Anticipation guides activate prior knowledge and helps students’ connect new information with what is already known, as well as setting a purpose for reading as students read (listen/view/observe) to gather evidence that will either confirm their initial beliefs or cause them to rethink. Explicitly teaching key reading comprehension and learning skills - making connections, self-questioning, visualising, inferring, determining importance, summarising, synthesising and self-monitoring - can help students become more purposeful, active readers, thinkers and learners.