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Breaking out on Zoom!

  Some ideas for using break out rooms in Zoom- * Reading- send links to reading texts through the chat function. Groups can whole class read together, ask for volunteer readers or nominate readers for paragraphs/chunks of text. If students can’t navigate to the reading texts simply display it on screen for all to view. Use breakout rooms for pair reading practise.  *Maximising the use of English- use breakout rooms after activities for pairs to check their answers together before feeding back to the whole group.  *Collaboration - use break out rooms for students to work together on creating questions/checking answers/constructing sentences or short texts/formulating opinions and ideas.  *Tutorials- use break out rooms for one to one meetings whilst the whole group are busily working on a task.  *Voting-use the new Zoom function to create labelled rooms and ask students to vote by choosing a room! *Differentiation-pair students together by skill sets/levels/abilities within break out r