Paired+Recitation


 * Peer Recitation CONTINUED (for increased student involvment): **

Method 3: **// Paired Recitation //**


 * Steps to follow: **
 * 1) Give the reading selection and have students read it to themselves. Allow each student about 1 minute to tell a partner about what went through their mind while they read the assignment - what they were thinking about and picturing while reading? Hold a general class discussion where students share with the class what their partner told them. Show students that most of their comments fall into the following three categories:
 * 2) Evaluation of the reading assignment (form, content, style, etc.)
 * 3) Comparison of the information to other versions
 * 4) Relating the information to their own life and experience
 * 5) Give students about a minute to draw a quick sketch of the main point of the reading assignment. (The time limit means that students can't worry about the quality of their drawing.) Have student pairs compare and choose one of their drawings to share with the class. In the general discussion, help students categorize the text elements represented by their drawings.
 * 6) Have each student pair retell the information in the reading assignment. One student begins and speaks for 30 seconds. The other student continues for the next 30 seconds, then the first again, and so forth.The teacher calls "Switch" at each 30 second interval. If students can't remember what comes next, they aren't excused from telling; instead, they repeat the last information told by their partner for 30 seconds. If a student is truly stuck, they can ask their partner for a hint, however this should be discouraged since the value of this method is that every student remembers and claims his or her own version of the reading.