Description: Academic Conversations : Classroom Talk That Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings, Paperback by Zwiers, Jeff; Crawford, Marie, ISBN 157110884X, ISBN-13 9781571108845, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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, challenging, and negotiating relevant ideas.
In Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings authors Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford address the challenges teachers face when trying to bring thoughtful, respectful, and focused conversations into the classroom. They identify five core communications skills needed to help students hold productive academic conversation across content areas:
- Elaborating and Clarifying
- Supporting Ideas with Evidence
- Building On and/or Challenging Ideas
- Paraphrasing
- Synthesizing
- Academic vocabulary and grammar
- Critical thinking skills such as persuasion, interpretation, consideration of multiple perspectives, evaluation, and application
- Literacy skills such as questioning, predicting, connecting to prior knowledge, and summarizing
- An academic classroom environment brimming with respect for others' ideas, equity of voice, engagement, and mutual support
The ideas in this book stem from many hours of classroom practice, research, and video analysis across grade levels and content areas. Readers will find numerous practical activities for working on each conversation skill, crafting conversation-worthy tasks, and using conversations to teach and assess. Academic Conversations offers an in-depth approach to helping students develop into the future parents, teachers, and leaders who will collaborate to build a better world.
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Book Title: Academic Conversations : Classroom Talk That Fosters Critical Thi
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: Academic Conversations : Classroom Talk That Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Communication Studies, Educational Psychology, Professional Development, Language Experience Approach, Learning Styles
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Author: Jeff Zwiers, Marie Crawford
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Education
Item Width: 7.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
