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The Reading Symphony's avatar

So great! This is a meaningful activity to teach parents, too!

Sarah & Aly's avatar

Beautiful visual connection-making! I love the built in student choice that lets them decide their own entry point, and the team encouragement and collaboration.

Matt Hardy's avatar

Wow, I used to do exactly, and I mean exactly the same activity with high frequency words.

I used to extend it slightly. After the game had finished and the tiles were all laid out, the group would use it to play as a normal dice board game, saying the word and making a sentence when they landed on it. I would go on to the next group and leave them to their board game.

Tara Hess's avatar

I am totally borrowing this idea! That is a GREAT way to close the lesson and take it up a notch. Awesome.

Catherine Fletcher's avatar

Can you give me an example of a completed Hexagonal thinking task please?

Or just 1 example?

Thanks.

Tara Hess's avatar

I try to work it into writing, too. After the discourse they need to choose two or three to write a sentence.

It can be really open-ended like this or more focused to a prompt, especially if you’re trying to tie it into a larger writing piece.

Naini B Singh's avatar

This is complete. It can go on depending on the number of words you have.