Accountable talk

In years of the past, a classroom full of on-task students may have been synonymous with a classroom full of quiet students. Not so much the case anymore. Active engagement in meaningful, standards-based learning doesn’t often look like students silently hunched over a desk as they concentrate on a worksheet. Kids make connections when they […]

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How do you use accountable talk in the classroom to push higher order thinking? Add these sentence starters to the conversation today!

Teach your students how to have accountable talk using these sentence starters and stems. These speech bubbles contain rules and stems for students to use as prompts for having conversations in reading, writing, and math. These can be used on an anchor chart in primary or elementary classrooms. I also have bookmarks, lessons, and posters for teaching all about accountable talk and what is accountable talk!

Talk Like a Leader (accountable talk)

The NUMBER 1 thing that teachers tell me about their class is....they talk TOO much. They say, "my students talk all the time. I've tried everything and they still want to talk. I don't know

My fourth grade class has been working a lot on “accountable talk.” I found these great desk charts on TPT, and my students have been great about referring to them.