Student Jobs for Group Work and Collaborative Learning for Reading Comprehension

Description

Have your students work as a team in collaborative groups to answer reading comprehension questions. Each member of the team has a specific role to encourage responsibility and active participation (see preview for more detail):

1. The READER reads the question.

2. The CLARIFIER helps the group understand what the question is asking.

3. The DIRECTOR helps make a plan for answering the question (i.e., “Let’s look back in paragraph 3”)

4. Everyone writes down their answer to the question independently.

5. The MONITOR checks to make sure that everyone has a correct answer.

It is everyone’s job in the group to “make sure that everyone works together respectfully as a team and actively participates.”

This resource includes:

• Posters in both color and black & white. The posters display each role and the order in which students take turns doing their jobs.
• Job description cards (in color and B&W) to be cut out and passed out to individual students to refer to.

This activity meets several Speaking and Listening Common Core standards, as it encourages students to “participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners.” The individual roles encourage each member of the team to contribute ideas.

For collaborative groups in math, you might also love:

Collaboration Groups for Math Problem Solving

OR you can bundle and save when you download the math and reading resources together:

Collaboration Learning Groups for Reading and Math Bundle