Many times, when students see something interesting in a text, they give their opinions about it. when they give their opinion, a lot of times other students start blurting out their opinions also. The Save the Last Word for Me strategy is a good strategy to use to let students share their opinions about certain phrases in a text.
To use this strategy, you first give the students a passage to read. After they have read it you divide them into small groups. While in their groups, you hand out 5 index cards to each student. On the cards, the students write one statement on each and that they would like to comment on, that they agree or disagree with, or on something that contradicts something they already knew. On the back of the card they write their comment. In their group, each student will take turns sharing their statement and helping the others in the group find where it is in the text. After the students reads the statement, each student in the group gives a comment, opinion, or statement, then after all the other students have gone, the student who had the statement would give their comment or opinion last. This way the student that thought it was interesting gets to have the last word in the matter. You do this until each student gets to do their cards. This is a good way for students to be able to give their opinions on articles in a constructive manner.