Reading Off the Wall

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Reading Off the Wall.

This activity encourages the students to work on their reading speed in cooperation with students who read faster. Pieces of paper with answers to pre-reading questions are put on the wall around the room. Students can circulate in pairs searching for five answers to match questions they have. The first pair to finish wins. Students sit down and discuss the questions and answers.

“Off the wall” can be adopted in a multitude of ways for during reading tasks as well. When students are reading off the wall it helps if the reading is enlarged on a photocopy machine. It’s a reliable technique because it transforms reading from a sit down task to a milling task; weaker students can divide up the task with stronger readers (e.g. each student takes a certain number of questions). Students can work in pairs and also in triads. Students who finish early can help team members who are still working the activity can be made into a competition so students are encouraged to read quickly. Slow readers are not put on the spot, and the teacher does have to worry about additional tasks. The same list of questions can be made easier or harder depending on the order they follow. The tasks below go from easiest to hardest.

Reading questions parallel the order in which the answers are revealed in the text. Questions are scrambled, so that the answers do no come in the order revealed in the text.

Veronika reads the questions.

Anna finds the answers.

The answers.

Now, find the correct order!

Reading off the wall

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