The Interpreting Game Goals: to practice converting raw data into statements about the person interviewed; to listen carefully Gather the materials needed: a doll, a stuffed animal, or a picture of a person.   Write a paragraph on one section of the chalkboard and read it aloud with the students.   For example: My classmate Lorena Melendez is from Texas. She is eleven years old and is in the sixth grade. She has two brothers; she doesn't have a sister. She has been in Fort Lee for three years. She can speak Spanish and English and a little German   Prop the doll or stuffed animal or picture on a chair in front of the class. Erase the underlined data from the paragraph, leaving blanks for the information that will be inserted. You can answer for the doll/animal/picture or select a student to "interpret" for it. Say, "We're going to write a paragraph about _____." Elicit the questions they will need to ask the character to complete the paragraph.   For example: What's your name? What's your last name? (How do you spell that?) Where are you from? How old are you? Write the questions the class dictates on an adjoining section of chalkboard.   Have one student write the answers in the blanks of the paragraph as they are given by "_____."