Academic Conversations Bundle!

Academic Conversations includes a set of conversational concepts that can be modeled and practiced to help all students engage in extended meaningful conversation about narrative or informational texts (Zweirs, 2011). The skills include the following: Initiating a worthwhile topic Elaborating and clarifying Supporting one's ideas and turn taking Building on or challenging another's ideas Applying ideas to life Paraphrasing/Summarizing Includes: Oral Discourse Strategies Manual Deepening Discourse and Thought Manual Discourse and Thought Chart Those Shoes book My Fantastic Words ($155.85 value) --> Academic conversations are important oral language uses to develop the deep comprehension task of interpretation of the content of a story. This “group interpretation” and discussion results in content needed for ultimately writing about the character’s challenge/trouble or problem, and then, how the character ultimately deals with it and moves on in life. This is a multifaceted langua