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

Where would we be without conversation? Throughout history, conversations have allowed us to see different perspectives, build ideas, and solve problems. In Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk That Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings, Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford dig into back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, challenging and negotiating relevant issues.

Academic Conversations identifies five core communication skills to ...