Partner talk

What a beautiful weekend it has been here in Southern California! Today, we got our first hint of Fall. I love it! I hope everyone is doing well, especially all of our teaching friends who were impacted by Sandy. Things have been really getting exciting in my classroom. As I have mentioned before, we have been diving into non-fiction text features for quite sometime. We recently began writing our "Expert Books" on Bats. This theme was perfect for Halloween Week and we had so much fun doing…

I made a few freebies!!!! Who doesn't love a good freebie? The first item I made is a poster that can be displayed to help your students ...

Tips & strategies for improving partner talk in the classroom. Partner talk promotes oral language development, student engagement, and deepens understanding of the content.

Looking for ways to help assign partners in the classroom? Make partner talk engaging and fun with these must-have partner pairing resources and tools. Read more about these fun partner cards, partner posters, partner sentence starters, and more from Tiffany Gannon by clicking the pin!

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Getting your students to Turn and Talk is a great way to have all students engaged in conversation at the same time.

A turn-and-talk is a structure to get students talking to a partner for a few moments. I use turn-and-talks a lot during whole group instru...

Partner Talk Rubric

If you had to lose one of your five senses, which would you give up and why?

Disagreements are a normal part of any healthy relationship. What’s not normal is when your partner shuts down and refuses to work through the problems.