Discussion strategies

Whether your students are lethargic or super-charged, adding movement to your lesson plans will help to solve both issues. Not only is it healthy to move throughout the day, but it can also help students focus and become more engaged with the content they are trying to master. Due to the nature of English classes, ELA ... Read More about 10 Ways to Add Movement in the ELA Classroom

Any teacher can improve classroom discussions using simple questioning strategies. Here’s how you can activate student voice and involve all learners...

Meaningful Student-Led Discussion Stems! Give students the language they need to ask a question or reply with a comment or relevant thought during a discussion!

Here they are: 15 formats for structuring a class discussion to make it more engaging, more organized, more equitable, and more academically challenging.

Want your students to have rich, complex conversations about the texts they read? This method leads to the kinds of classroom discussions you thought only happened in college.

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Here they are: 15 formats for structuring a class discussion to make it more engaging, more organized, more equitable, and more academically challenging.

Engaging classroom discussion strategies that are ideal for middle and high school students in virtual, blended, and in-person settings? Yes!

In this quick post I'm rounding up four options to jumpstart good discussion no matter how challenging the group. If you're looking for some new discussion options to use in secondary ELA, click through to learn more.

Using a silent discussion strategy allows for all students' voices to be heard and for the assessment of individual understanding of a text. Students practice agreeing or disagreeing and providing textual evidence just as they would in an oral discussion.