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The K-3 Guide to Academic Conversations

Practices, Scaffolds, and Activities
If you’re looking for a way to foster purposeful content discussions and high-quality interpersonal engagement, then put The K-3 Guide to Academic Conversations at the top

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781506340418
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2017
  • Page Count: 160
  • Publication date: November 28, 2017

Price: $30.95

Price: $30.95
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Description

Description

“For thousands of years people have been using the skills we describe in this book to engage in conversations with others. What isn’t as prevalent, however, is instruction--especially in primary grades—in which we engage students in productive conversations about academic ideas. This book fills that very big need.”
--Jeff Zwiers & Sara Hamerla

Talk about content mastery . . .

Primary teachers, you won’t want to miss this: if you’re looking for a single resource to foster purposeful content discussions and high-quality interpersonal engagement, then put Jeff Zwiers and Sara Hamerla’s K-3 Guide to Academic Conversations at the top of your reading list.

Whether your students love to talk or not, all must be equipped with key conversation skills such as active listening, taking turns, posing, clarifying, supporting with examples, and arguing ideas. This ready resource comes packed with every imaginable tool you could need to make academic conversations part of your everyday teaching:

  • Sample lesson plans and anchor charts
  • Guidelines for creating effective prompts
  • Applications across content areas, with corresponding assessments
  • Rubrics and protocols for listening to student speech
  • Transcripts of conversations and questions for reflection
  • Companion website with video and downloadable resources

Tens of thousands of students in the upper grades have reaped the benefits of academic conversations: high-quality face-to-face interactions, increased motivation, stronger collaborative argumentation skills, and better understanding and retention of content. The K-3 Guide to Academic Conversations is that resource for providing your primary students with the same powerful learning opportunities.


Key features

  • Provides a clear and convincing rationale for prioritizing oral language development through academic conversations in the primary grade levels.
  • Introduces core communication skills that teachers can model and practice with elementary students to improve the quality of oral language in the classroom.
  • Provides applications across all content areas with corresponding assessments, including rubrics and protocols for listening to student speech
  • Explains how to analyze the conversations of students’ transcripts and determine areas of need at the message, sentence, and word levels
  • Provides guidance for engaging families and communities as partners in developing conversation skills.
  • Online videos will provide a glimpse into the language production of students as well as provide an opportunity for teachers to practice using the protocol to listen carefully to language
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Jeff Zwiers

Dr. Jeff Zwiers is a senior researcher at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education in the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. His work focuses on improving learning in diverse classrooms, language development, and student interactions.

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Sara Hamerla

Dr. Sara Hamerla is an ELL Administrator in the Newton Public Schools. She has taught English as a second language and served as an administrator in public schools in Massachusetts. Her teaching experience also includes teaching history and language arts in Colombia and Ecuador. In the past several years, she has trained many teachers on how to implement academic conversations.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments


About the Authors


Introduction


Chapter 1: Building a Foundation for Conversation Work

Chapter 2: Activities and Lesson Plans for Introducing the Skills

Chapter 3: Academic Conversations for Literacy

Chapter 4: Academic Conversations in Science, Social Studies, Math, and Art

Chapter 5: Assessing Student Conversations

Appendices


References


Index


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Review copies may be requested by individuals planning to purchase 10 or more copies for a team or considering a book for adoption in a higher ed course. To request a review copy, contact sales@corwin.com.

Related Resources

  • Access to companion resources is available with the purchase of this book.