{"product_id":"academic-conversations-paperback-softback","title":"Academic Conversations - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eConversing with others has given insights to different perspectives, helped build ideas, and solve problems. Academic conversations push students to think and learn in lasting ways. Academic conversations are back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, challenging, and negotiating relevant ideas. In Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings   authors Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford address the challenges teachers face when trying to bring thoughtful, respectful, and focused conversations into the classroom. They identify five core communications skills needed to help students hold productive academic conversation across content areas:   Elaborating and Clarifying  Supporting Ideas with Evidence  Building On and\/or Challenging Ideas  Paraphrasing  Synthesizing  This book shows teachers how to weave the cultivation of academic conversation skills and conversations into current teaching approaches. More specifically, it describes how to use conversations to build the following:  Academic vocabulary and grammar  Critical thinking skills such as persuasion, interpretation, consideration of multiple perspectives, evaluation, and application  Literacy skills such as questioning, predicting, connecting to prior knowledge, and summarizing  An academic classroom environment brimming with respect for others' ideas, equity of voice, engagement, and mutual support  The ideas in this book stem from many hours of classroom practice, research, and video analysis across grade levels and content areas. Readers will find numerous practical activities for working on each conversation skill, crafting conversation-worthy tasks, and using conversations to teach and assess. Academic Conversations   offers an in-depth approach to helping students develop into the future parents, teachers, and leaders who will collaborate to build a better world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45547214307566,"sku":"9781571108845","price":48.79,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/academic-conversations-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}