Listening and Speaking in Class

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Listening and Speaking in Class

• 1. Responding to the learning objective
• Response starters to engage students
• Speaking to build vocabulary capacity
• Building accountability with specific listening
  tasks
• Speaking in the classroom
• (guided interaction)

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Ideas
What are we going to talk about?

• Summarizereduce down using your own words
• Paraphrase use your own words to explain
• Make your own definition for a term
• Explain a process
• Compare two concepts Predictions and Results
• Explain how activity helped learning
• Response to a question

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Talk about it!

• Review
• Evaluate something
• DebateAgree/DisagreeJustify
• Predictions with justification
• Identify real life applications
• Closure Sum it all up
• 3 2 1 Response
• Response starter/pair-share/class discussion

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Activities
How do we do this?

• Pair-Share
• Appointments
• Table/Group Talk
• Jigsaw
• Four Corner Talk
• Save the last word
• Partner work
• Structured Academic Conversation
• (summary w/ must use academic terms)

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Keep talking!
More is better!

• Tea Party Musical chairsstop nearest partner
  discuss given topic
• Post group presentation Evaluation discussion,
  share out
• 3 x 3 Statement builders
• Idea wave presenter poses idea or question,
  next person comments
• Give one, get one
• Linear Array Most to least, Justify
• Great Race First to describe and guess all
  terms, people, events on a list
• Stand-up, Sit-down, or Walk across the room w/
  Random Qs and Justify Why?

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Linear ArrayLeast to Mostacademic way to say
this shows
Terms
Arrangement
Most
presents
illustrates
demonstrates illustrates exhibits presents display
s
displays
exhibits
demonstrates
Least
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The Great Race (Partners) Semantic Clusters
Describe Things Associated with Outer Space

Sun Orbits Mars Venus Saturn Galaxy Meteors
Start at the bottom and race to the top. GO!
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3 x 3 Statement Builder
Detroit Market Emerged
Oligopoly Automobiles Manufacturer
Chrysler Industry Firm
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Which of the following strategies is not
traditionally used on a steady basis to teach
academic vocabulary?
A.) copying definitions
B.) matching
C.) playing games
C.) playing games
D.) writing sentences
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F