You can complete the question for them and they answer it OR have them complete the question and toss it to someone else to answer it. When they catch it, they can call out any question in their vision on the ball (no turning the ball around). Have students stand up in a circle and toss the ball around. Write Socratic Seminar question starters on the ball (see picture)
Here’s a cheap soccer ball on Amazon: Soccer Ball (affiliate link) It can be used with any text, and the gist is this: This has been one of my most popular strategies of the years and rightly so! It’s a great tool to have on hand and toss around when students start to lose focus or drift off during reading time.
