Introduce your students to the exciting and powerful educational approach knows as a cooperative learning and the specific classroom strategy called the Jigsaw method. Each of the four readings in All sides of the issue presents a socially important issue from four distinctly different points of view. Working in a cooperative groups, students are asked to take one side of an issue and present it to their classmates. Your students will develop their language skills, learning strategies and cooperative group skills while      learning to think critically about issues such as law, immigration, the environment and cultural perceptions. A complete teacher resource book, All sides of the issue presents a concise introduction to the principles of cooperative learning and the jigsaw approach and suggests ways to 

get started in the classroom. Duplicatable activity sheets provide all the materials you need to introduce Cooperative learning and the Jigsaw method in your class. All side of the issue offers stimulating, content-based reading and discussion activities for multi-level high school, adult school and community college classes at the low to intermediate levels.