Ex. of Pre/Dur/Post Strategies. How do these strategies help students?

There are many strategies that can help students get interested in a book.  As future teacher, it will be our job to keep our students enthusiastic about reading, so we will have to help them and show them reading can be fun.  In doing this we will be able to use different strategies that can be helpful  in keeping the students interested.  A "Pre-Strategy" can be by just merely showing the students the cover of the book and asking questions like:  What do they think the book will be about? What do they think the title means? And have they ever read the book before?  Once those topics are discussed, you can continue on reading the book out loud to your class, or have them take turns and read the book to each other.  Take time out from reading to stop and ask the class their opinion on what is going to happen next, and or, have they ever done anything similar?  When a child can relate to a book they are able to get a better understanding of literature and stay enthusiastic about it as well.  Continue on reading the book, and then once the book is completely read you are ready to start the "Post-Strategies" by either continuing on with the discussion by asking if any of their predictions were true.  It is a great idea to try and apply the book to everyday life by asking them if they have a similar connection to the book and or main character.  After discussions, you can apply the book with different lessons such as having them organize and draw the sequence of events, have a quiz, or have them recreate the cover of the book.  

Having strategies while reading if very important, because it helps to keep everyone on their toes.  Without students even knowing they will learn how to brainstorm, predict an outcome, and make connections.  By conducting these strategies you have a better chance at keeping the students enthusiastic about what is going to happen in the story.  Not every child will as excited about literature as others, so it is important to keep conduct a mixture of strategies that will target each individual student's attention.