Strategy : Tea Party

Explanation/Purpose : This is a predictive strategy used in classrooms to help understanding of a topic by group discussion and interaction. Resources are pulled together for the group to make a conclusion of a topic about to be discussed or read.

How it looks in the classroom : Students are each handed a piece of the text on a slip of paper and while mingling, they share their text with others. They then confer in order to try and find out the title or main themes of the passage.

When? : Before and during

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Unfortunately, at the time of going to press, so to speak, there were no relevant examples of this strategy currently on the net.

If anyone would like to add a comment with a source, I would be more than happy to check it out and add it to the site.