"Tea Party" Teaching Strategy
(Where people hear various snippets of conversation and attempt to piece together a cohesive whole)
Choose a poem, short piece of prose, or a few pages from a novel.
Select juicy sentences, phrases, or words from the reading and copy one per notecard. Plan duplicates of each notecard so students will have the opportunity to hear each one two or three times. Select the snippets with an eye toward multiple interpretations.
After 5-7 minutes return students to their groups. As a small group, students try to piece together the main idea of the passage. Students should be encouraged to make inferences, draw conclusions, and make predictions based on the lines they heard. They should not feel they will be evaluated on a correct re-construction of the original. The goal is to have students defend their conclusions, sequencing, and predictions based on the pieces of text they have.
During the discussion, the teacher should be circulating the classroom and recording comments to be used in debriefing. Students can identify the types of thinking skills demonstrated in the comments. (One way of making the invisible skills visible.)
This description is from http://www.nsrfharmony.org/protocol/doc/tea_party.pdf
Also you can find a variation of this strategy in "Inside Anna's Classroom" a Heartlines Production. The study guide - https://www.dropbox.com/s/8snozejov44vvia/FINAL_AnnaStudyGuide%20%283%29.pdf
(Where people hear various snippets of conversation and attempt to piece together a cohesive whole)
Choose a poem, short piece of prose, or a few pages from a novel.
Select juicy sentences, phrases, or words from the reading and copy one per notecard. Plan duplicates of each notecard so students will have the opportunity to hear each one two or three times. Select the snippets with an eye toward multiple interpretations.
- Put students in groups of three. (Older groups can be larger.)
- Pass out a card to each student.
- Students mingle, reading their card to each person who asks.
After 5-7 minutes return students to their groups. As a small group, students try to piece together the main idea of the passage. Students should be encouraged to make inferences, draw conclusions, and make predictions based on the lines they heard. They should not feel they will be evaluated on a correct re-construction of the original. The goal is to have students defend their conclusions, sequencing, and predictions based on the pieces of text they have.
During the discussion, the teacher should be circulating the classroom and recording comments to be used in debriefing. Students can identify the types of thinking skills demonstrated in the comments. (One way of making the invisible skills visible.)
This description is from http://www.nsrfharmony.org/protocol/doc/tea_party.pdf
Also you can find a variation of this strategy in "Inside Anna's Classroom" a Heartlines Production. The study guide - https://www.dropbox.com/s/8snozejov44vvia/FINAL_AnnaStudyGuide%20%283%29.pdf