kagan for review

I love using KAGAN structures whenever possible. See information about KAGAN here if you’re not sure what it’s about.

One of the structures that I LOVE and use almost DAILY is Draw a Chip. Here’s the directions:

Each team lays a set of chips question-side down on their desk. One student picks a chip and reads the question. All teammates take a turn responding. The next student picks the next chip and all teammates respond.

In place of chips, I use my handy dandy vocabulary card sentence frames.

Remember these? I print these out for the bulletin board but I always keep an extra set on hand for interactive games such as, “Choose a Chip.”

I divide up the cards and place them onto each desk group. I LOVE using these stackable trays from Dollar Tree. This helps me get ready ahead of time because I can neatly stack them and put them off to the side. I have 10 trays so I can have 2 games ready at any time.

In the picture, I have placed the cards or “chips” that group two will work with.

This is quick way for kids to get started on an activity to support speaking development AND practice tier 2 words in context. It has made such a difference for us. You can get the cards here:

I also have a bundle for ALL of my Module 1 games for 4th Grade’s “A Great Heart Module” from Wit and Wisdom

Try it out and let me know how it goes!