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Game (5-10 minutes) After reading the story, tape a card onto each student’s back. Students
will have to work together and ask each other questions to find out which scene is taped to their
shirts. Once they’ve determined what point in the plot they represent, students can line
themselves up in an order that represents the sequence of events in the story. If this sounds
complicated, the game can be modified for all age groups and ability levels.

Variations If your students have language difficulties, they can break into groups of three
students to sequence the beginning, middle, and end of a story. If you consider they are
advanced readers, you can get the whole class involved in ordering the numerous events of a
Shakespearean play.

Assessment: This game provides the educator different situation for informal literacy
assessment. While applying Shared Reading the educator will be able to assess reading skills and
pronunciation of the students. During the game the educator will be able to observe how the
students talk to each other and if they comprehend the storyline. The educator can easily adapt
the level by choosing a different story.

Repeat with different stories as many times as you want.

Activity no. 2: Numeracy assessment - Trio
Total duration: approx. 30 min. Group size: 5 – 15 students

Assessing basic numeracy skills can be really boring. In the following you will get to know a board
game that will help to assess basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills.

Pre work: Before the assessment session you only need to print out the number cards from 1 –
50 attached as Annex II and optionally the 49 numbers from 1 to 9 (Annexes are downloadable
from the project website).

Preparation (5 Minutes) To play, draw a square with 7 x 7 numbers from 1 to 9 in a random way.
(see example below).