Jigsaw+activity

EG: organisational structure – based on readings
 * **Name:** || **Jigsaw Strategy** ||
 * Source: || Bennett & Bennett ||
 * Purpose: || * Ensure students have read content
 * Helps students to consolidate their understanding of the content
 * Gets students sharing, talking and putting their understanding into their own works. ||
 * Steps: || * Set reading task and create reading sections and templates for summaries;
 * Instruct students on expectations up front – to read their section, become experts and then represent your reading in a certain way to other mixed groups. (from 6 in expert group to 3 sharing different parts).
 * Organise groups, ensure enough for class numbers and match to topic
 * When groups split and join other expert groups, number 1-5
 * Allocate timing and monitor groups as they move through the process of the jigsaw
 * Create time line strategy – major shifts in English reading theory
 * Use of a visual representation from the reading to group meaning. ||
 * Resources: || * Templates for structuring summaries/understanding
 * Reading materials ||
 * Strands: || Speaking and listening: Use of texts, conventions, processes and strategies. ||