This video demonstrates how to use jigsaw in a middle school language arts class and how it helps students understand complex text. It states how giving students a responsibility and allowing then to be the experts in a group helps build their comprehension skills, confidence, and social skills. You can notice in the video there are students form different ethnicity, and possibly some students who are ELL and see how they are working together to gain understanding.
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In this video it goes through how to do/use the jigsaw strategy. It goes through home groups and expert groups as well as how to pick out articles related to the topic. Then the strategy is demonstrated in a classroom. This video will help teachers realize how to effectively engage students while using the jigsaw strategy.
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Definition: a cooperative learning strategy that enables each student to
become experts on a certain topic, through communication and discussion with
others reading the same text, and then share their findings to their original “home”
group.
Purpose:
To give students the opportunity to be the teacher, build confidence and responsibility, and work collaboratively with other to come up with the main ideas of a text.
Tips:
Purpose:
To give students the opportunity to be the teacher, build confidence and responsibility, and work collaboratively with other to come up with the main ideas of a text.
Tips:
- Have some questions or questions starters for groups to get started.
- Have one student in each expert group be the leader of the discussion.
- Incorporate a writing activity.
- Have 3 to 5 students in a group
How the strategy may be used in a lesson:
Lesson 1: American Folklore: A Jigsaw Character Study
In this lesson students will work Collaboratively in small groups. They will participate reading of a variety of American tall tales. One person will take one of the article in the group,. After students read the text then they will report important aspects of their stories in their expert small group, made up of other people who read the same text from other groups. After they discuss their story in their expert groups, then they will go back to their home group and share about the important concepts from their text. To take this a step farther a teacher can incorporate a writing activity. Students writing activity can vary but an example is on the link below, to have students compare two characters from the stories or simply compare their expert text to another one.
Idea for lesson from: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/american-folklore-jigsaw-character-30524.html?tab=1#tabs
Lesson 1: American Folklore: A Jigsaw Character Study
In this lesson students will work Collaboratively in small groups. They will participate reading of a variety of American tall tales. One person will take one of the article in the group,. After students read the text then they will report important aspects of their stories in their expert small group, made up of other people who read the same text from other groups. After they discuss their story in their expert groups, then they will go back to their home group and share about the important concepts from their text. To take this a step farther a teacher can incorporate a writing activity. Students writing activity can vary but an example is on the link below, to have students compare two characters from the stories or simply compare their expert text to another one.
Idea for lesson from: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/american-folklore-jigsaw-character-30524.html?tab=1#tabs
Lesson 2: Author study lesson
Put students into small groups. Then pass our different books to each group. (Good idea to have about 4 to a group and 4 books) Have each expert group read the books of an author. This can be anywhere from a small short book for a week to a long chapter book tat will take about a month . After students are done each students will create a small poster and presentation to present to their home group. This incorporates reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.
Put students into small groups. Then pass our different books to each group. (Good idea to have about 4 to a group and 4 books) Have each expert group read the books of an author. This can be anywhere from a small short book for a week to a long chapter book tat will take about a month . After students are done each students will create a small poster and presentation to present to their home group. This incorporates reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.
Writing Component:
Resources/Research:
Aronson- Aronson along with others from University of Texas and the University of California at had the original research that gave credibility to the jigsaw approach for reading comprehension. He states that having student’s complete jigsaws allows them to build confidences and emphasizes cooperative learning in the classroom. He believes that this should always be incorporated in a classroom as a whole. By providing students an opportunity to actively help each other it build comprehension, as well as helps them look at the same information differently.
Clarke- The benefits of using Jigsaw for reading compression it encourages students to share ideas and increased their learning through the communication and discussion with others. It teaches students cooperation, responsibility, teamwork, critical thinking and social skills, which are all skills that students need to be successful in the twenty-first century.
Aronson- Aronson along with others from University of Texas and the University of California at had the original research that gave credibility to the jigsaw approach for reading comprehension. He states that having student’s complete jigsaws allows them to build confidences and emphasizes cooperative learning in the classroom. He believes that this should always be incorporated in a classroom as a whole. By providing students an opportunity to actively help each other it build comprehension, as well as helps them look at the same information differently.
Clarke- The benefits of using Jigsaw for reading compression it encourages students to share ideas and increased their learning through the communication and discussion with others. It teaches students cooperation, responsibility, teamwork, critical thinking and social skills, which are all skills that students need to be successful in the twenty-first century.