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

.Academic ConversationsClassroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content UnderstandingsConversing 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 This book shows teachers how to weave the cultivation of academic conversation skills and conversations into current teaching approaches. More specifically, it describes how to use conversations to build the following: 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 videofind 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.Read MoreAdditional ISBNs9781032680514, 9781003840336, 9781571109217Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings 1st Edition is written by Jeff Zwiers; Marie Crawford and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Academic Conversations are 9781003843290, 1003843298 and the print ISBNs are 9781571108845, 157110884X. Additional ISBNs include 9781032680514, 9781003840336, 9781571109217.