They will also get an opportunity to see how pictures work in relationship to text, how questions are written, and chapters are laid out. Instead of telling students how a book is put together, teachers provide opportunities that allow students to learn by themselves. At the same time, students have fun as they learn. Directions should be brief but clear so students will not have difficulty. The ideas could be used as small group competitions or as individual activities.
Every choice has a tradeoff.
We encourage the activity as an in-class activity. However, if you are into homework, the assignment can be given as homework. As a third step, and a way to gather insight into how students are doing, you can give students an opportunity to make up a small scavenger hunt for themselves or the class. There are many variations of the scavenger-hunt theme. The two examples we give here are Scavenger Math and Scavenger Sleuth.