When playing it the second time, I realised that this game might be a bit hard for students with dyslexia and/or reading impairments. Therefore it will be good if the teacher stands close to the words and supports students that have reading difficulties, by doing this, it includes them in the game and set them up for success.
The second strategy I introduced was Say It which is a speaking strategy. The students work in small groups and get a chance to ask a question to anybody of their choice in the group. The person answers the question, they can then choose the question he/she wants to ask next and to whom. In this way, they can read a question that they already heard or a new question. I chose the topic of kindness to make the really low in context while introducing the game. The students enjoyed it and all participated eagerly.
The next activity that I introduced was Think, Pair, Share.
This is a quick easy activity to use during any discussions to encourage sharing ideas and listening to your buddy. Students had to think for a minute before discussing it with their buddy and then shared what their buddy said. It was interesting to see who was able to report back on what their buddy said.
The last activity for this term was Shared Dictation. In this activity, two students sit back to back, each person gets a few sentences and takes turns to dictate to the other. They have to mention where the punctuation has to go. If they get stuck on a word, their partner can spell it out. I was good to see everybody participating in and completing the task.
I am looking forward to seeing these strategies used in room 1 and to see if it supports acceleration in writing.
