Accountable Talk & Discourse

To continue from last week's oracy post, start small and be explicit.  Accountable talk does not happen overnight.  It takes weeks/months of introducing, modeling, and practicing to get students up and running more independently.

3 Direction Conversation

(WIDA 3 Key Uses...stay tuned for more in depth key uses info here in the future)

Some extra Resource Videos to check out to see Accountable Talk in Action!

~Michelle K & Christine P

Oracy In The Classroom

A quiet classroom is a suspicious classroom....

Here are some ideas and samples of sentence stems that can be used in various areas within your teaching.

This does not happen overnight!  Students need time, exposure, and practice.  Make it manageable for you.... Start small with stems in one area and work your way into others.

~Michelle K & Christine P

For more information.... check out the following links:

http://www.esc20.net/users/0048/docs/Sentence%20Stems%20for%2021st%20Century%20Learning.pdf

http://www2.eit.ac.nz/library/ls_guides_sentencestarters.html

http://learning.gov.wales/resources/learningpacks/mep/literacy/reading-early/oracy-and-early-reading/?lang=en

https://classteaching.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/developing-oracy-skills/

http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/108035/chapters/Why-Talk-Is-Important-in-Classrooms.aspx

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