Discussion Builders Poster, 4-8

Resource Type: Other Classroom discussions promote academic success by building powerful communication and reasoning skills. This Discussion Builders poster for grades 4-8 helps students of all achievement levels build these crucial skills. Sentence stems on the poster provide students with a scaffold for voicing their ideas and questions and valuing others’ contributions. The poster is a powerful tool for helping students — including English language learners — present and expand on their ideas. The language in the grades 4-8 poster supports sophisticated thinking processes by prompting students to consider counter-examples and conjectures and to justify various options. A quick-guide for teachers explains how to get students talking — and thinking — more conceptually. The guide includes tasks and blackline masters for introducing and sustaining the use of Discussion Builders in any subject area. This poster for grades 4-8 is one in a set of three that also supports discussions in grades K-1 and 2-3. As a set, the posters and teaching guides scaffold progressively more sophisticated language and reasoning across the grades. Posters can be ordered individually, as a set, and at bulk discount rates. To order this resource click here Publisher: WestEd, 2005 Order #: MATH-05-03 Price: $14.95 Discount: 25-50 units: 20% off 51-100 units: 25% off 101 or more units: 30% off

What Project is associated with this Resource? Math Pathways and Pitfalls