Academic Conversations Ch 3
Elaborate and Clarify activities
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
Paraphrase
understand and organize a listener: students must be able to listen without interjecting.
paraphrase cards
Build on or challenge a partners idea
two minute opinion share
practice norms for controversial conversations: must know how to have a debate in an academic way
synthesize conversation points
Parking, Promoting, and Pruning ideas: students must learn to only use the most useful info
converse at the computer
support ideas with examples
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