How many times does this happen? You’re having a classroom discussion, your students are talking and then…crickets. You’re a great teacher, so you know that you need to provide adequate wait time, but that silence is deafening. All too often, I used to jump in and provide an idea or add a follow-up question to try to keep the conversation… Read More
Getting students to cite text evidence can be a difficult skill to teach. Strategic use of sentence stems, sentence starters or sentence frames can make all the difference. I’m going to use the example of the book Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love to illustrate my point. This is an accompanying post to another post about questioning techniques to… Read More
Getting students citing evidence from texts can be a difficult task. Sometimes, no matter how many times you teach them how to cite evidence, they still don’t. The questioning techniques we use can have a profound impact on how our students answer the questions. Almost equally as important are the sentence frames we provide. Three question words are pretty much… Read More
