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 == Preview strategy ==
+=== Purpose and theory of preview strategy ===
+''' Purpose'''
+* The Preview strategy is designed to help students:
+# to know as much about the passage as possible in advance of reading it;
+# to identify what is expected of the student to know about the passage
+'''Background'''
+* all learning of new knowledge is built upon application of prior knowledge
+** therefore the more we know about something new to us, the better we will comprehend it
+*** ex., we learn about and see more in a movie that we watch multiple times than we did the first time we say it
+**** watching it again, we already know what will happen, so we can focus on details and plot intricacies, as opposed to trying to figure it out
+** see [[Prior Knowledge|Prior Knowledge}}
+* similarly, when taking a test, it is helpful to know what we are expected to know about it in advance
+** by previewing questions, we can
+** furthermore, all questions have information in them
+*** ex. "Why is the sky blue" tells us that "the sky is blue"