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This strategy uses visual cue cards with images and accompanied gestures to help teachers model and remind students to engage in meaningful conversations.
This strategy uses visual cue cards with images and accompanied gestures to help teachers model and remind students to engage in meaningful conversations.
The main skills being taught are to;
The main skills being taught are to;
initiate a worthy topic, elaborate and clarify, support someone else's ideas, build on or challenging someone else's ideas, applying someone's ideas to your life experience, summarizing/retell, and paraphrase.
initiate a worthy topic, elaborate and clarify, support someone else's ideas, build on or challenging someone else's ideas, applying someone's ideas to your life experience, summarizing/retell, and paraphrase.
How do I use it?
How do I use it?
Have students make a set of visual cue cards.
Figure S1.1. Academic Conversation Features Source:Educational Leadership 66
- Read a text selection, stopping from time to time to elicit students' comments and questions.
- As students offer their responses, ask them to elaborate with their partner, using the appropriate hand motion for elaborate.
- Ask students to pair-share and tell their partners whether they agree or disagree with their ideas.
- Model by saying, "I agree with [Juan's] interpretation because … "
- Remind students of the prompts on their cards.
- Pair students for a conversation.
- Have partners take out their cards and quiz each other on the symbols and prompts before beginning.
- Tell students to use their notes and discuss possible themes of the text selection.
- Go around the room and monitor the conversations.
- Have each pair write an "exit ticket" synopsis of the conversation they had and then present that synopsis to the class.
- Reflect on the process and have students self-assess with a kid-friendly rubric, such as the following:
https://education.wm.edu/centers/sli/events/ESL%20101/b.1.swiers_crawford_ed-leadership.docx
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