Academic conversations : classroom talk that fosters critical thinking and content understandings /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zwiers, Jeff
Other Authors: Crawford, Marie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Portland, Me. : Stenhouse Publishers, [2011]
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Table of Contents:
  • Reasons to converse in school
  • Getting started with academic conversations
  • Lesson activities for developing core conversation skills
  • Designing effective conversation tasks
  • Training students for advanced conversations
  • Developing academic grammar and vocabulary through conversation
  • Conversations in language arts
  • Conversations in history
  • Conversations in science
  • Academic conversation assessment
  • Reminders.