This is a twist on the running dictation activity you commonly find in the classroom.
For those who don’t use running dictations, here is the cliff notes version:
Have a text stuck to a wall on one side of the classroom (or cut strips up and stick them around the classroom). One student runs to the text, remembers as much as possible, then runs to their partner who is a scribe and dictates the text to them.
This twist was suggested to me today:
In key places, such as obvious verbs or prepositions, take out the word in the text and leave either a —– or the word BANANA. eg. My name BANANA India. I BANANA in England.
Once the student have completed the dication, they then have to go through the text and decide what word goes in place of BANANA.
simples.
It's Miss Fearnley To My Friends 