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The
Interpreting Game
Goals: to practice converting raw data into statements
about the person interviewed; to listen carefully
1.
Gather the materials needed: a doll, a stuffed animal,
or a picture of a person.
2. Write a paragraph on one section of the chalkboard
and read it aloud with the students.
For example:
This is Lorena Melendez. She is eleven
years old and is in sixth grade. She has two
brothers. She doesn't have a sister. She can
speak Spanish and English and a little
German.
3. 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.
4. 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?
5.
Write the questions the class dictates on an adjoining
section of chalkboard.
6. Have one student write the answers in the blanks
of the paragraph as they are given by '_____.'
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