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This prereading handout forces students to activate their thinking while previewing a nonfiction text. Most previewing guides simply ask the reader to find features. This guide gets the student to build understanding of the text based on what they preview. Not only to they have to explain what they learned from previewing the text's features, but are also asked to make predictions, activate background knowledge, and explain (when finished reading) how their previewing aided their understanding of the text.