Building Academic Language Through Purposeful Grouping and Constructive

Building Academic Language Through Purposeful Grouping and Constructive Conversations Designated & Integrated ELD

What do quality constructive conversations look like and sound like?

Objective Connect ELD Standards, Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways to Fostering Academic Interactions

CA ELD Standards & Fostering Academic Interactions

Oral Output and Interaction What’s the Difference? 1. Oral Output is one-way, one-time, clear and strong communication of ideas and thinking. 2. Interactions are back-and-forth conversations in which participants build on each other’s ideas. Source: Dr. Jeff Zwiers, 2015 Think-pair-shares, answering teacher questions, jigsaws, gallery walks, oral presentations, etc.

INTEGRATED ELD CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATION SKILLS ACROSS CONTENT AREAS

Independent Practice 1. Each group will be assigned a content area 2. Make sure each member has the Conversation cards; create, clarify, fortify, and negotiate 3. Cards will be used as talking chips

Constructive Conversations What differentiates cold-blooded organisms from warmblooded organisms? (warm-blooded) Use the (cold-blooded) to create and clarify ideas Science

Warm-blooded and cold-blooded Read the article and think about… How might dinosaurs been both, cold blooded and warm blooded? Science

Constructive conversations How can an organism be both warm-blooded and coldblooded? Use the to fortify and negotiate ideas Science

The Courage That My Mother Had The courage that my mother had Went with her, and is with her still: Rock from New England quarried: Now granite in a granite hill. The golden brooch my mother wore She left behind for me to wear: I have no thing I treasure more: Yet, it is something I could spare. Oh, if instead she’d left to me The thing she took into the grave!— That courage like a rock, which she Has no more need of, and I have. Create Clarify by Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1949 What words might you use to describe the author’s feelings towards her mother?

Read the brief biography. Use the information to continue your discussion. Be prepared to share. Fortify Negotiate

Constructive Conversations What do the Salem Witch Trials reveal about life in Massachusetts at the end of the 17 th century? History/Soci al studies

Constructive Conversations Math

Constructive conversations Science How can an organism be both warm-blooded and cold-blooded? ELA What words might you use to describe the author’s feelings towards her mother? History What do the Salem Witch Trials reveal about life in Massachusetts at the end of the 17 th century?