This article is long, but a great resource with several ideas for how to increase and include more opportunities for students to be actively engaged with activities that target speaking and listening in the classroom. Collaborative conversations and activities has been a focus this year with the new reading program, and this gives students more opportunities to practice vocabulary and skills across all content areas. Students have been learning to include evidence, arguments, sequencing, and more. The focus with the article is English language learners, but strategies listed would be helpful for all of our students.
Classroom Talks
After school students recently toured the CSI Wind Energy program. What a great opportunity to expose students to a future STEM career posibility:
Wind Energy
Here are pictures with classroom buddies!
Classroom Buddies
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