A Collaborative Strategy to Increase Reading Comprehension in World Language Classes
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A few years ago, I learned about a strategy called Quote, Quote, Mingle from our middle school instructional coach at a professional development session. This strategy helps students gain knowledge by having conversations with their peers based on what they’ve read. The more people you talk to, the more information you get to help you develop a fuller picture of the topic. (I still remember the article we read that day about a panda’s sixth digit—a rudimentary, thumblike bone extension.)
This strategy may sound familiar. It has a lot in common with the jigsaw method, but while the jigsaw method asks groups of students to become “experts” on different aspects of a topic and then share their findings with their classmates, Quote, Quote, Mingle requires students to hypothesize about a text while posing questions and drawing inferences about it based on reading a small part of it.
