Building Literacy Through Classroom Discussion
This book shows teachers how to facilitate discussions where students share rich, defensible interpretations of literature and solid, reasoned, understandings of any concepts under study. The authors clearly define the teacher's role and provide lots of successful strategies such as provocative statements and journal jots. Trouble-shooting sections answer common questions such as how to correct a wrong interpretation and how to teach students to build on each other's comments. 216 pages.
