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Wait Time in Student-Centered Discussion

Wait Time in Student-Centered Discussion

June 24, 2020

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

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Best Sentence Frames To Easily Teach Students Citing Text Evidence

Best Sentence Frames To Easily Teach Students Citing Text Evidence

June 14, 2020

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

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Questioning Techniques to Get Students Citing Text Evidence

Questioning Techniques to Get Students Citing Text Evidence

June 13, 2020

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

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