6 Individual, paired or group work

Students can undertake active reading strategies on their own, with a partner, or in a group. Any opportunity that enables your students to discuss their ideas and answers will support their learning. The more active the reading, the more your students will learn.

Ideally, all active reading strategies should be done in pairs or small groups. From time to time you may want to use an active reading strategy with individual students. This would still be active reading as long as they have some manipulation or reworking of the text to do. For paired and group work you will need to think about how to organise your students before the lesson in order to get the best out of them. Your decision about individual, paired or group work should be based on your knowledge of your students, your professional judgement and the planned learning outcomes.