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Wood, Karen D.; Endres, Clare – Reading Teacher, 2004
In order to make predictions about a text, students must have prior knowledge or experiences about the topic and a means or a reason to retrieve this latent information and knowledge. The Imagine, Elaborate, Predict, and Confirm (IEPC) strategy takes the predictive process back to its origins in the imagination and extends it throughout the…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Reading Strategies, Reading Processes, Reading Motivation

Wood, Karen D.; Robinson, Nora – Reading Teacher, 1983
Provides several types of prereading activities that combine into one strategy stressing vocabulary, oral language development, and prediction. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Oral Language