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ACADEMIC CONVERSATION TOOLS

Interaction Warm-ups

Give One Get One
Anticipation Guide with 3 Questions
Jigsaw Groups
Numbered Heads Together

Pro-Con Improv
Structured Academic Controversy
Think-Pair-Share Guidelines

Academic Language Actions
Civil War Simulation

Academic Language Posters
What to say when you...

Affirm responses of others
Analyze ideas and concepts
Apply learning to new situations
Clarify what is being said
Compare and contrast
Disagree with others
Empathize with others
Express cause and effect
Express opinions
Infer or draw conclusions
Persuade
Report information
Summarize


Conversation Assessment

Designing Conversation Tasks
Conversation Self-assessment
Conversation Rubrics (Lang, Sci, SS, Math)

Visual Organizers for Conversation

Five AC skills target
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Central Question Diagram

Clues Problems Wonderings
Author's Purpose Road Map
Reading Strategies Shapes Notes

Conversing for Reading

Quotation Cafe & Hot Seat

Conversing for Writing

3D Persuasive Seesaw
2D Persuasive Seesaw
Academic Language Paragraph frames
Response to Literature Organizer

Conversations in History/SS

What makes a historical event important?
Everything Except Text Practice
Sample US History Lesson (ms convo)
Outline Note-taking Form
Cause-Effect Timeline
Lens of Historical Thinking
Causes of History Bingo
Checkbric for Historical Argument Article
Academic Language frames-History

Conversations about Literature

Questions & Controversies
Theme Anchor Chart
Debate Rubric
Comic strip Conversation
Common Literature Themes
Outline Note-taking Form

Conversations in Science

Outline note-taking form
Jigsaw Labs

Conversations in Math

Conversations in ELD/World Language Teaching

Situations for Language Teaching
Criteria for Language Lessons (RISAS)

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