36 Guess Who
Madison Long
Strategy Overview
- Guess Who integrated into a classroom setting allows for students to enhance on their communication skills, while also expanding their comprehension and critical thinking skills. Students work together to determine their character that they have chosen for the activity.
- The benefits of this activity are essential in the overall support of students in their academic learning and progression in literacy development.
- Some benefits of this activity include “Identify details from a text, learn how to form a question, good listening skills when their peer is asking a question, and work as a team to come up with a solution” (A classroom game-guess who, 2017).
Strategy in Action
For an instructional incorporation, educators can have students interact with characters from texts that they are reading in class. This allows for students to understand more about the content they are reading, while also being engaged and learning in a fun and communicative manner. This activity can be incorporated into various content areas to expand on engagement with the content and further understanding of the material.
Student Example
- Create Guess Who Boards that include characters from a class text
- Students interact with one another describing various components of characters to guess each other’s chosen role.
Related Resources
References
A classroom game-guess who. (2017, December 16). https://theteacherbin.com/a-classroom-game-guess-who/
