Guess What – Questioning Game
Guessing Games are a fun and interactive way to introduce the skill of questioning to your students. This fun headband game can be played in small groups or as a whole class activity.
Select players to wear one of the picture cards attached to a headband. Their job is to ask questions to the group to try and work out what is on their picture.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts and begin to analyse texts by drawing on our knowledge.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E1LY05
9
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures
AC9E2LY05
9
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
ACELY1660
8.4
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
EN1-4A
old
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
EN1-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
EN1-RECOM-01
new
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Extensions
Students can only ask ‘thick’ questions where the answer can not be yes or no.
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