7 Beach Ball
Sarah Spindler
Strategy Overview:
- You will need a beach ball, a Sharpie, and a list of reading comprehension questions.
- Students take turns throwing the ball to their classmate. Whatever question or number their hand lands on or is closest to is the number they will answer.
- There are 2 options for this activity.
- One option is to write numbers on the ball. The numbers will coordinate with the question numbers you write yourself (or that are found in the textbook). This gives you many options to use the ball for a variety of topics
- The second option is to write general questions on the beach ball that can be used with any story, such as:
- What is the setting?
- Who is the main character?
- Describe a character trait of one character?
- What lesson can be learned from the store?
- What happened in the beginning . . . the middle . . . and the end?
Strategy in Action
Teacher: Let’s stand up and make a circle. Here is our Reading Beach Ball! These are the questions in all the colored stripes:
- What is the setting?
- Who is the main character?
- Describe a character trait of one character?
- What lesson can be learned from the story?
- What happened in the beginning
- What happened in the middle
- What happened in the end?
When your hand lands on a question, that is the question you will answer.
Teacher: throws the ball to a student
Student: *Reads “What lesson can be learned from The Lightning Thief”?* Student answers question
Student: Throws ball to another classmate in the circle
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