Ask: What do you think the book will be about? What information can you get form the illustrations about the setting, characters or plot.

Elicit Prior Knowledge and Build Background
Discuss gold mining and gold fever with students. Ask: What do you know about gold mining or gold fever?

Skim and Scan
Have students turn to the contents page.

Explain that a contents page shows where they might find information in particular chapters within the book. Have students read the chapter headings. Ask: What new information about the story can you get from the chapter headings?

Have students find the word Prospectors on page 2. Explain to students that the meaning of this word is in the glossary at the back. Ask: Where might we find the meaning of this word?

Have students find the glossary by looking up the page number in the contents page. Have them find the word and read the meaning from the glossary. Have students read the other words in the glossary

Ask: Are there any other words in the glossary you are unsure of?