Doing something physical often seems to help students to learn, and they enjoy it! That is why teachers seem to spend so much time cutting up pieces of paper. In this activity you do just that.
Aim
To encourage intensive reading and awareness of linkers.
You need
A piece of text that the students have either recently read or are about to read.
Procedure
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Rewrite or type the text, in 'chunks' of one or two sentences. Leave a lot of space between each 'chunk'. |
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Now copy these separated sentences, making enough copies for one between each pair of students, and cut the text into pieces. |
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Give the cut-up text to the students and ask them to put it together again. |
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When they have done this, ask them to compare it with the original. |
(NB It is a good idea to put each set of text into separate envelopes, so that you don't end up with one pair of students having fifteen copies of the opening sentences, for example. You can also code the sets, with coloured dots or symbols, so that you can collect them up easily in order to use them again. Or you can always ask the students to do this for you as their first task, before ordering the text.) |
Jigsaw reading