Walk and Talk

This week I tried a walk and talk strategy with some of my students. After we read a few chapters in our book I partnered them up and they walked around the room 2 times and were suppose to talk about what happened in the book. I also had them try and come up with 1 discussion starter. Most of my students were engaged during this time It was perfect to get them up and moving because we had been sitting for a while. I noticed they were more on topic when I would go around and listen to them speak. Many students were able to summarize what they read and were more comfortable talking with a partner instead of in front of everyone. After they were done I made statements like I heard one person talking about... did anyone else talk about that? We were able to keep a good discussion going because they had just talked about it with a partner.