Academic Conversations : Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings.

Conversing with others has given insights to different perspectives, helped build ideas, and solve problems. Academic conversations push students to think and learn in lasting ways. Academic conversations are back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, cha...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Zwiers, Jeff
Other Authors: Crawford, Marie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Chapter 1: Reasons to Converse in School; Chapter 2: Getting Started with Academic Conversations; Chapter 3: Lesson Activities for Developing Core Conversation Skills; Chapter 4: Designing Effective Conversation Tasks; Chapter 5: Training Students for Advanced Conversations; Chapter 6: Developing Academic Grammar and Vocabulary Through Conversation; Chapter 7: Conversations in Language Arts; Chapter 8: Conversations in History; Chapter 9: Conversations in Science; Chapter 10: Academic Conversation Assessment; Chapter 11: Reminders