Activity of the week - Jigsaw Reading

Here is a really simple way to make reading lessons more active!

Active learning is one of the 3 pillars of Competency based language teaching and an essential tool in creating a class environment full of motivated students who are able to do more than just memorise.

Jigsaw reading is a co-operative task that involves dividing up a long text into smaller parts. Students are then divided into groups of 2-4 and are each given a part of the text to read.

The students then feedback to each other on the information in their own text, which encourages discussion and speaking and also helps the students understand the text properly as they have the responsibility to explain it to somebody else.

Comprehension questions can then be done in teams, making it essential for all the group to have the information and therefore motivating the students to read their text and then paraphrase it properly.  

There's an example in this guide for teachers.

Try a jigsaw reading for yourself and let me know how it goes!