OR Jigsaw reading for sawing boring texts and making them bearable

You know that text nobody finds interesting, but it’s there and you can’t really skip it, ‘cause the syllabus doesn’t allow it? Every textbook has them. So here’s what you could do to them:

1. Cut the text into parts.
2. Prepare comprehension tasks for students, but so that they can be answered only if people who’ve read different parts work together.
3. Divide the students into as many groups as there are parts. Tell them to remember as much as they can.
4. Form new groups, so that the members together have covered the whole text.
5. Give out envelopes containing three cards each with a different set of solutions to the tasks, but only one is the correct.
6. Each card from the envelope has a word on it’s back. The words on the backs of the cards with the correct answers form a famous line connected to the topic of the lesson.
7. As students find the correct card, they call out the word at the back of the card. Write the words on the board as they are read: In, See, Change, World, Be, To, The, The, Want, You.
8. The students assemble the line: “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

I’ve been introduced to this complex idea by a colleague of mine called Anita. :) It’s tricky to understand, but the results can be fantastic.

Love to all,

Dora