Academic Conversations Ch 3

analogies and metaphors: challenge students to come up with own analogies

organizers and manipulatives

journal jumpstarts: useful if you think students aren't ready to talk

understand and organize a listener: students must be able to listen without interjecting.

paraphrase cards

two minute opinion share

practice norms for controversial conversations: must know how to have a debate in an academic way

Parking, Promoting, and Pruning ideas: students must learn to only use the most useful info

converse at the computer

Hunting Deep Quotations

planning conversations on paper

supportive examples practice

evaluating the support of examples: students must learn what examples are more important than others