QR Challenge: Teaching Reading Strategies

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. A – Read strategy number 2 and list at least 3 strategies you can display in your classroom over this and the next week.	OK
2. B – Read strategy number 3 and design a graphic organizer you can use with one of your classes. Have the reading text ready.	OK
3. C – list at least two advantages and two disadvantages for strategy number 4. How can the drawbacks be overcome? Explain.	OK
4. D – think of a lesson you have taught in which you could have applied strategy number 5. Be ready to share it and to explain why you could’ve done it that way.	OK
5. E – read strategy number 6 and list at least two support ideas before students read a text. Be ready to explain your ideas.	OK
6. F – choose TWO of the rest of the strategies that you can apply in your lessons as soon as possible. Think of how you could do it. Be ready to describe your ideas to the class.	OK

 

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