Rosalie Peyton CO #2

I observed Group 1A's reading class taught by Olivia James. It was a very engaging class. She had a passage from a book that the students had previously been given. She went into another room with one group of students to work on coming up with sentences that summarized the passage. While they were doing that, I organized and directed the other group of students as they acted out the passage. After the first group of students came back into the room, we performed the passage for them. This helped them to understand and comprehend what was in the passage. The passage was filled with vocab words that the students are learning and also had to do with Kuwait, which is where a number of the students are from. Then the students were divided into three teams and they were given cards with the vocab words on them and cards with the definitions on them. They had to match the words to the definitions and place them in the order that they occurred in the passage. This matching game was played three times, and points were awarded to the winning teams of each round. The definitions that were given in the game were the same definitions that will be on the quiz in the following class. This lets the students know what to expect for the quiz so that they can properly prepare. The exams for the class involve reading a passage and answering questions about it.