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
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
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!
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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1. What is fluency? | The ability to read words, phrases, sentences, and stories correctly, with enough speed, and expression. | 2. What is phonemic awareness? | The ability to identify and play with individual sounds in spoken words. | 3. If a child has a basic concept of print and tends to memorize and recite stories, what type of reader are they? | Emergent Reader | 4. If a child is able to read less than 90% of the words in a text the text is likely at what level of comprehension for them? | Frustration Level | 5. What is 'concept of print?' | ​Concepts of Print refers to the awareness of 'how print works'. This includes the knowledge of the concept of what books, print, and written language are, and how they function. |
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