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

Description

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. 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.