Turn and talk

Getting your students to Turn and Talk is a great way to have all students engaged in conversation at the same time.

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Rules for participating in turn and talks. Students can use the anchor chart as a reference to practice setting and enforcing these rules. Turn and talk can happen with fixed student grouping or flexible grouping.

Anchor chart--turn and talk

Engage your students in discussion with our simple classroom discussion strategies and activities that are sure to improve students skills.

Right before Winter Break I created this Anchor Chart to remind the kiddos about some of the Accountable Talk phrases we have discussed. Accountable Talk essentially means actively participating in academic conversation. In other words, the kiddos take turns speaking, provide proof for their opinions, add to previous comments, and disagree appropriately. This type of academically-based conversation encourages the kiddos to think before they speak and really listen to each other. I found this…