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Center for the Collaborative Classroom: Integrating Speaking and Listening Ccss
Integrating speaking and listening builds a positive classroom community with less bullying, increased self-confidence, and greater independence, along with the ability to work with all students. This article gives ideas for projects or...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Give Every Student a Stake in Group Work
Can we organize group work so that every student has ownership over their learning? This is a collection of resources that highlight some tips on how to make students' group work more relevant and impactful for everyone involved.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Small Group Discussions
We will engage in small-group discussions to demonstrate our understanding of our research topics. This will help us prepare for further research and product creation.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Prepare for a Discussion
Practice adhering to the discussion norms to prepare for our discussion. This will help us participate more effectively in the discussion.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application: Teenage Brain: Prepare for a Class Discussion
Review the academic conversation reference guide, the conversation stems, the class discussion norms, and the discussion question.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Discussions
Engage in a whole-class discussion to demonstrate your understanding of adaptations of Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Soaps Tone
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, prepare for writing about texts, and engage in language analysis of...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Student Led Discussions (Socratic Seminar, Fishbowl)
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of complex texts to meet reading expectations, engage in a variety of group conversations, and prepare for writing about texts.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Assessing Preferred Learning Styles
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about learning styles. A link to many inventories for learning styles is provided. SL.9-10.1b Group Rules
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Strategies for Problematic Members
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a cooperative grouping strategy. This strategy focuses on placing students who tend to get into trouble.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning strategies. Learning style assessments is a strategy suggested, along with several ways of randomly assigning students to groups.
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Laura Candler: Sylverster and the Magic Pebble Activities [Pdf]
Lesson plan utilizing cooperative learning for use with the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig. Includes printable word-sort cards and discussion question cards.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Dialogic Listening
Dialogic listening is similar to active listening but is an alternative. This site outlines its four major characteristics and provides related links.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Assigning Tasks
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning ideas. Students can be assessed via items suggested on this reference.
Education.com
Education.com: Sl.1.1.a Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to practice the Common Core skill of following agreed-upon rules for discussions.
Education.com
Education.com: Sl.2.1.a Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to practice the Common Core standard of following agreed-upon rules for discussions. Also included is a formative assessment for speaking and listening.