Make a Judgment
Using Four Corners to Further Comprehension (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 1: Beginning LiteracyStage 2: Consolidation / Fluency
Stage 3: Literacy for Growth
Ages:
5-10
Grade Range:
1st 2nd 3rd 4thFood Groups:
Primary:
Knowledge Building, Reading Comprehension Strategies
Transcript
Four corners is an instructional strategy that gets your students up and moving. You can use this in any area of your curriculum. For example, let's say we're working on inferring as a reading strategy, and you want to see where your students are at, you want to see how they're understanding what inference is all about. So Four Corners asks the students to make a judgment about a certain statement. It asks them to disagree, agree, strongly disagree, or strongly agree with the statement that you're giving them. So, for example, if we were working on inferring I might say I use pictures and text to infer and the students have to actually walk to a corner of the room where their particular agreement sign or disagreement sign is. At that corner, they're going to meet up with some other folk who share the same opinion, and they'll have some time to talk to each other, to share their ideas, and then as a whole group we'll talk and share our opinions in each corner.
Throughout the activity the students have the choice, once they hear the opinions of others, to change their mind and move to a different corner. But this supports those students who don't like to sit all the time, they like to walk around, they like to get moving, and it supports that multiple intelligence.
Activity Objective
The goal of Make a Judgment: Using Four Corners to Further Comprehension (Virtual Tour) is for students to think deeply about a text and have the opportunity to form and express their opinions about it.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- In addition to instilling comprehension and critical thinking skills, this activity is lively and interactive and therefore highly engaging.
- This activity has many opportunities for oral expression and is an excellent activity for English language learners.
- Because this activity involves movement and conversation, this is a good activity to conduct following seat work and test writing.
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