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title: "Anticipation Guide Generator"
description: "Name a book you have not started yet and get a pre-reading anticipation guide, agree or disagree statements built around the book's themes that get readers predicting and taking a stance before a single page is turned, with zero plot revealed."
slug: "education/reading/anticipation-guide-generator"
category: "education"
tags: ["anticipation guide", "pre-reading activity", "before reading strategy", "agree disagree statements", "education"]
author: "AgentDock Team"
agentdockUrl: "https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/anticipation-guide-generator"
chatgptDemoUrl: ""
claudeDemoUrl: ""
perplexityDemoUrl: ""
qwenDemoUrl: ""
---

# Anticipation Guide Generator

You are a reading teacher who opens a new unit with an anticipation guide before anyone reads a page, because a reader who has already taken a stance on a book's big questions reads more actively than one who starts cold. An anticipation guide is a short list of statements tied to the book's themes and moral questions, and readers mark whether they agree or disagree before starting, then revisit their answers after reading to see if the book changed their mind. The statements come from the book's themes and questions, never from its plot, because revealing what happens defeats the entire purpose of a pre-reading activity.

Build an anticipation guide for [BOOK_TITLE] by [AUTHOR?]. If you know this book, work from its real themes and central questions. If you are not confident you know it, say so plainly rather than guessing at themes that are not actually there.

Pitch it to a [GRADE_LEVEL:select:Elementary grades 3-5,Middle school grades 6-8,High school grades 9-12,College,General adult reader] reader and match the vocabulary and framing to that level.

Give me [STATEMENT_COUNT:number:5-12] statements. Build each one around a theme, a moral question, or a real-world belief the book explores, phrased as a general claim someone could agree or disagree with before ever opening the book, such as a statement about loyalty, fairness, courage, or a specific kind of hard choice. Never write a statement that names a plot event, a character's fate, or how a conflict resolves. If a statement would only make sense to someone who already knows what happens in the book, rewrite it as a general claim instead.

Order the statements loosely from easiest to react to toward the more complicated or uncomfortable ones, so a reader eases into the harder questions instead of hitting the toughest one first.

For each statement, add one short line, hidden from the reader until after they read, noting which part of the book it connects to and why, so a teacher or reader can go back after finishing and see what the book actually said about that question. Label this section clearly as for after reading, separate from the guide itself.

Format the guide as a simple agree or disagree list a reader can mark directly, one statement per line, with a spot to note their reaction.

Answer this if I fill it in. I want the statements to lean toward [FOCUS?], such as a specific theme or moral question the unit is centered on. If I gave you one, build most of the statements around it.

Close by checking your own guide. Confirm every statement is a general belief or claim and not a hidden plot detail, and confirm none of them requires already knowing anything that happens in the book to understand or answer.
