small groups

"We're better together! We cam do almost anything with teamwork. Explore how to work on a team with fun activities and friendly monsters. Life works when we pull together!"--Back cover.

Presents a guide to organizing small-group comprehension activities for English language learners.

Describes over two hundred games, exercises, and activities designed to raise comfort levels and promote communication at parties, weddings, sales meetings, training sessions, and other settings; each with a title, purpose statement, suggested group size, time estimate, instructions, and variations.

Offers definitions of teamwork, respect, and self-respect, discusses the virtues of teamwork, offers stories of how respect has been fought for, and includes advice on developing character.

Explains the role teachers play in small-group instruction and offers practical strategies to help teachers structure better small-group activities in the classroom.