Yup Part 2 – Teaching Suggestions
Posted on January 22, 2017Share This Content
* required field
I’m a strong believer in students talking about what they’ve learned from informational texts. Good conversations about nonfiction have the potential to – increase students’ understanding of texts, help students clarify their thinking, help students expand their understanding, build bridges to stronger writing. But a critical component is teacher support. Without teacher support, even our …Read more
How do we help students have back-and-forth conversations about nonfiction that build understanding? Conversations that include continually returning to their notes and the text to think about what to say next? I help students start to do this by demonstrating a conversation with a student-partner… I start by asking a student-volunteer to be my conversation …Read more