Rationale: students gain access to text through academic, text-based dialogue and collaboration. It helps students to synthesise their understandings in a visual form with close reference to the text.
Students are given time to think individually about how to represent on a collaborative poster the spirit of a text read by the team.
In small groups the students share their ideas and reach a consensus. They are given a time limit (20–30 minutes) to work collaboratively on a poster to represent the big ideas of the text.
They must:
Alternatively students may reach consensus on ONE main idea, and then an image for each significant supporting detail of the text.
Students then share their posters and self-assess them using a rubric.
Watch this video to see students making a collaborative poster in a year 10 social studies class
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Published on: 19 Jan 2018
