Classroom Talk That Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings

(5-12)

By Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford Academic conversations—back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, challenging, and negotiating relevant ideas—push students to think and learn in lasting ways. Jeff and Marie identify five core communications and describe how to use conversations to build academic vocabulary and grammar, critical thinking skills, literacy skills, and abstract essential understandings.

240 pp.