Jigsaw Reading

We are introduced to a new activity in class which is jigsaw reading. First of all, Miss exposed to us the benefits of jigsaw reading and then she asked us to it. Some of the benefits are to encourage active learning among students because students have to give ideas among them about texts they discuss, it also combines several important aspects of learning such as comprehension, oral presentation, small project work; and can be used any size of class. For our in class activity, we are divide in groups and were given different sets of text. After that, we are needed to get in a new group of people with the same text. Here, we need to discuss what the text is about as a group and give ideas. Later, we are needed to get in our original groups and combine all of the information with the group members. The text was actually, Malcolm X’s speech about white people treatment to black people. From here on, we need to tell our group members what we have from the discussion before and then we can make sense on what the speech was all about as a whole based on the guided questions from Miss.
In Jigsaw reading, personally I feel really grateful to learn it because in school, my English teachers have never done it and I think that it is really beneficial to students. They will have the whole idea of the text without reading the whole text alone and save time by doing so.