This professional resource will assist teachers as they develop conversation skills with their students. The authors identify five core communication skills: elaborating and clarifying, supporting ideas with evidence, building on and/or challenging ideas, paraphrasing and synthesizing. Students learn to evaluate facts and use them for meaningful problem solving. It enables students to develop a variety of critical thinking skills to build complex ideas and solve problems with others. The book describes how to build academic vocabulary and grammar, critical thinking and literacy skills, and abstract essential understandings. It includes suggestions to guide conversation skills, to craft conversation-worthy tasks and to use conversations to teach and assess. The book includes a table of contents, an appendix, references and an index.--Ministry of Education website.

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