Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Group Work In a high school literature class we do a lot of reading. I've tried reading aloud to the students, having them read in pairs, having students volunteer to read, but I still have students that will not read regardless of the strategy. Any suggestions of strategies that work for students who won't read by themselves, don't pay attention when others read, and goof off in groups? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Some students may have problems reading out loud. They may be okay reading on their own but get really nervous reading out loud so they may mess the words up. Also, as hard as it may seem, some students may have problems reading the texts that are assigned because of the words, or language (like old Shakespeare). Working in groups, they might pretend to be too cool to actually read the text because they want to impress their friends. Giving them short quizzes after each chapter or act (if it's a play) is a great way to see if they are paying attention or understanding what is happening in the texts being read. Sometimes if you are reading a play as a group you may have to assign roles out, request volunteers first but then give out the rest of the roles to people who you think would be able to read a lot and be comfortable with it, or just rather read a few lines like secondary characters.