- Students interact and use language to give and receive instructions to complete a task.
Steps: 1. Instruct students to sit back-to-back (or facing each other with a barrier in between). 2. Give the first student an envelope with pictures (any subject area) that are prearranged in a specific order. 3. Give the second student the same pictures cut apart. 4. Instruct the first student to describe the placement of the pictures. 5. Instruct the second student to arrange the pictures per the first student’s description. 6. Allow students to collaborate, verifying their papers. | Differentiation: • Provide sentence frames. • Strategically pair students for peer support. Variations: • Give each student in the pair the cut-out pictures. Students take turns placing the pictures in any order and describing to their partners. • Ask a student to describe a picture to his/her partner and have the partner draw based on the description. • Tape a vocabulary word on a student’s back. Have other students describe the word. Students guess which word is on their backs. • Provide students with a nine-square grid and vocabulary words/pictures on cards, strips, etc. Students give directions for placement of the vocabulary terms. (i.e., “Place the word/definition____ in the middle square. Place the word/definition____ above the word ____.”) |