One of our main curriculum initiatives is finding ways to deepen student understanding and interaction with knowledge through the use of journaling. While I have found journals in all the classrooms I have visited to this point, what they look like and how students are using them is as different as each teacher is in their teaching style. That is the wonderful thing about teaching, the art of teaching. I love seeing how each journal is different and how everyone has their own spin on…

Home. Math Talk Moves:

Fourth grade teacher Lynn Simpson uses a variety of talk moves to encourage participation and collaboration. Lynn explains how asking students to repeat each others' thinking encourages deeper understanding. By adding on, students build off of their peers' ideas. Lynn describes how her class devised their own "agree" signal to use during discussions.

This fabulous 88 page unit will help you include Math Talk Moves into your everyday math routine! This unit clarifies what each talk move means and gives a week long lesson plan on how to introduce and implement the talk move in your classroom. This unit also contains: - Anchor charts for introduc...

Math Talk discussions are an effective way for students to develop strong communication skills and deepen their understanding of mathematical content.

Read chapter 5 Making Thinking Visible: Talk and Argument: What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? Wha...

Use talk moves, to facilitate classroom discussions. Here are the talk moves described in the work by Chapin, O’Connor, and Anderson, 2003

TALK MOVES are effective instructional strategies to promote student thinking and learning in all subject areas, and especially in mathematics. The TALK MOVES identified here are REVOICING, RESTATING, APPLY REASONING, ADDING ON, WAIT TIME, and REVISING. In this product, you will receive: (1) 6 Fu...