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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 rooms to support or challenge each other. 

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