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[baedaebok]

Have others developed successful info gap activities for grades 1-3?
Info gap is usually pairs where the first student knows something that the 2nd student doesn't know. To complete a task (e.g., fill in the blanks in a worksheet), they must share their knowledge by asking each other questions, etc.

Is info gap just for adults or can it work for beginners in grades 1-3?

BDB

[Lucas]

[baedaebok]

Yes, copying. But copying only through the 2nd child describing with words to the first child. It forces the child to speak and communicate. It's building up from repetition and repeating.

So, please describe what you have done for this. My goal is to harness the child's desire to communicate.

BDB

[edwardcatflap]

Virtually any modern kids' text book on speaking activities will be full of information gap tasks like this.

[Lucas]

Unless you've got SUPER great kids, if one has one set of info and the other has the rest, they'll simply LOOK at each other’s words and copy them directly without saying anything!

This makes it a pointless exercise, unless you make them sit back to back or something like that...

[YTMND]

It's unreasonable to expect 1st-2nd to cooperate with the rules of "not peeking". So, what I do is use picture cards. Those can be your gaps. Give sports cards to one students, animal cards to the other, etc...

Then, they flip the card and do whatever activity you are working on (What does a rabbit do? / The boy is throwing a ___ (baseball, football, etc...).