A teacher organizes her class into the pair and gives a story of 18 sentences. One of the pairs has odd sentences (sentence 1, 3, 5,....) printed and other sentences blank while the other has even sentences (sentences 2, 4, 6,.....) and odd sentences blanks. Students in pairs have to read out the sentences mutually to each other and write to complete the story. This involves listening, speaking, reading and writing. What is this task known as?

A teacher organizes her class into the pair and gives a story of 18 sentences. One of the pairs has odd sentences (sentence 1, 3, 5,....) printed and other sentences blank while the other has even sentences (sentences 2, 4, 6,.....) and odd sentences blanks. Students in pairs have to read out the sentences mutually to each other and write to complete the story. This involves listening, speaking, reading and writing. What is this task known as? Correct Answer <span style="">Mutual dictation</span>

Dictation refers to the practice of speaking or reading aloud words to be noted down by others. It is of various types.

Key Points

 Here, the teacher has divided students into pairs and they have to read sentences mutually to each other. This is mutual dictation.

  • Mutual dictation is a group activity where the students are divided into pairs and are asked to dictate parts of the text to each other and then collectively combine the total text.
  • The main aim of the activity is to target the reading and writing skills by dictating the information to each other in order to get the complete text.
  • This is one of the great activities to develop listening, reading, and writing skills integratively.
  • Mutual dictation will help the children to develop writing skills as well as reading very effectively. 

Thus, it is concluded that the above-mentioned task is known as mutual dictation.

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