Talking & Responding
The Integration of Strands 1 & 3
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Goals
- Understand the demands of strands 1 & 3 fully
- Explore ways to promote students communicating and responding
- Build student's content knowledge through incorporating their interesting into the classroom.
Foundational Communication Skills (Strand 1)
Actively Listening
- Stop
- Listen
- Process
Sharing Your Thinking with Others
Discussion Circles
- Unit of study centered
- Listen Actively
- Express an opinion
- Work collaboratively
- Participate / Engage in meaningful discourse
Task: What skills were employed during the discussion?
Videos
- Hook
- Plant a question in each group (author's purpose, personal connections, words)
- Builds content knowledge
https://youtu.be/xbHszDDdle8
Task: What does the author want you to believe after watching this video?
https://youtu.be/EXU32Og_ozI
https://youtu.be/pDN_dzq7atI
Share your thinking and learn from others!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-UCAvXdLus
Group Roles
- Everyone has a role
- Knows expectations
- Everyone shares
"Whoever does the work, does the learning."
8th Graders Share Annotations
https://youtu.be/o4ruiDLboE4
Responding
- Describe personal connections
- Provide oral, pictorial, or written response
- Write brief comments on literary & informational texts
- Use text evidence
- Retell, paraphrase, or summarize texts
- Interact with sources in meaningful ways (note taking, annotating, freewrite, illustrate)
- Respond using newly acquired vocab
- Discuss specific ideas
Accountable Talk
Quick Writes
- "drite"
- 2-5 minutes
- "Stop and reread what you wrote."
Blurbs
A social media write!
- Write a post....
- Write an Instagram caption
- Tweet
- Use #hashtags
Task: Write a blurb that showcases your learning thus far today. Be sure to use #hashtags to show your thinking.
Reciprocal Teaching
Write Arounds
- A silent discussion
Task: Do kids need devices?
Randi Anderson
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