Jigsaw Stories

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Jigsaw Stories: A Motivating Way of Reading.

   Sometimes it is quite difficult to cope with large classes, especially if you want students to read a passage or book they are not interested in. What can we do to encourige our students to practise reading? It has to be a lively activity; otherwise students will soon get bored. Jigsaw stories could be the answer.

How to proceed

First of all we make groups of four or five people.

1. Pre-reading activity: The teacher writes the title of the jigsaw story on the blackboard. Then students brainstorm to think about what is going to happen in the story.

2. Reading activity: 

a) The teacher gives each group a pack of cards which contains as many cards as there are phrases in the jigsaw story. These phrases previously been written or typed on the cards.

b) The teacher tells the groups to put the card on their tables and look at them for a few minutes.

c) The groups are then asked to put the cards in the right order.

d) If a group says they have finished, the teacher will check. The groups get 10 points if their story is in the right order; if it is not, they are told to try again, but now the teacher will tell them which sentences are not in the right order. The next time the teaher checks this group's story, they will get a maximum of 8 points if the order of their story is correct, the 3rd time a maximum of 6 points, the 4th a maximum of 4 points, etc. Who is the winner? The group that gets the most points.

3. Post-reading activity: the group are asked to make up their own jigsaw stories. The best jigsaw story can be used in another class.

Pupils work in groups.

jigsaw story

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