Students can use this flipbook as a reference during academic conversation and discussions. These skills should be explicitly taught, and eventually students shouldn't need to reference these speaking stems during conversation. Until they have mastered these speaking skills, this flipbook provides appropriate scaffolding for their conversations. Speaking "stems," "starters," or "frames" have been organized by conversation skill (5 tabs) and even further into ways to prompt the skill through questioning and ways to respond (t-chart on each tab). The 5 Conversation Skills by which the stems are organized: 1. Elaborate and Clarify Ideas 2. Support Ideas with Examples 3. Build on Ideas or Challenge 4. Paraphrase What's Been Said 5. Synthesize the Conversation

Use this helpful cheat sheet for your conferring with readers at individual or small group reading conferences. This chart lists all the essential fiction reading skills, with conversation starters for the conference, and several strategies to teach for each skill! Don't ever feel stuck in a conference again. With this tool, you will always have a menu of teaching points to choose from! Skills included: Choosing a just-right book Reading unknown words accurately Reading fluently in phrases Reading with intonation Monitoring comprehension Activating and connecting to background knowledge Ask questions Retelling Summarizing Predicting Inferring character traits Tracking dialogue Figuring out new vocabulary Accumulating the story Determining Importance Synthesizing

This conferring notebook is everything you need (besides the binder!) to start meeting with students during reading and writing workshops! Included: -3 cover pages to choose from -Conferring Records at a Glance section to track conference frequency with students -Conferring Calendar section for planning -Assessment Data section with a Progress Tracker to keep track of reading and writing assessment growth for all students throughout the year -Strategy Groups sections with a graphic organizer for organizing kids into groups based on need and a notes page for keeping record of all your strategy group meetings -Individual Conferring section with (1) Student bio page to be printed for each student's section, includes places for their data, their self evaluations, and favorites, (2) PDSA goal setting sheets for students to set and monitor their own goals, and (3) TWO VERSIONS of conferring notes pages to choose from!

This International Baccalaureate IB Poster MEGA-SET includes poster sets for the IB Learner Profile, Attitudes, and Key Concepts! There are even 2 design styles to choose from! Download the preview for a sneak peek! LEARNER PROFILE Inquirer Communicator Open-Minded Principled Balanced Knowledgeable Thinker Caring Reflective Risk-Taker (Also included is a "Courageous" poster with the Risk Taker description as some schools choose to use the language Courageous instead of Risk Taker) ATTITUDES Appreciation Commitment Confidence Cooperation Creativity Curiosity Empathy Enthusiasm Independence Integrity Respect Tolerance KEY CONCEPTS Responsibility Perspective Reflection Change Function Connection Causation Form

With this download you will receive 17 posters in TWO DIFFERENT STYLES! Each style includes the following posters: -"Genres" title poster - Fiction - Realistic Fiction - Historical Fiction - Science Fiction - Fantasy - Nonfiction - Biography - Autobiography - Informational Texts - Traditional Literature - Fairy Tales - Tall Tales - Fables - Legends - Myths - Poetry You will see that all fiction genres are on the same background color, all nonfiction, etc. This helps students visually categorize genres and subgenres. Posters include definition and bulleted features of that genre that students can look for in deciding whether a book fits that genre. Real literature examples are included with every genre! You can even pull the digital file up on your SMARTBOARD to use as slides for teaching each genre! Also included is a two-sided bookmarks to print for student use (I suggest cardstock and lamination) and a bar graph for students to track their own genre reading!

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