Sentences with phrase «academic conversation skills»

Bowman Elementary School, Lexington This project will allow for developing supports to implement academic conversation skills and strategies in K - 3 classrooms.

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Rick Cherwitz, associate dean at the University of Texas and director of the PDP program, believes that one way to win support from more of the university's established academics is to crank up the conversation about the importance of communication skills outside the university.

On the eighth - grade academic research residency, students use their language skills to engage Japanese natives in conversation.

Most surprising for Greaves has been the depth and richness of the conversation among peers and the students» use of academic skills.

Commenting on more academic skills, Fox and Geddes say basic science concepts can be explored through play - based inquiry and the foundations for more formal literacy and language learning can be laid by adults immersing youngsters in meaningful conversations and taking the time to listen carefully and respond.

«The biggest problem related to English - language learning is not so much developing oral - conversation skills, but gaining academic written - language skills,» he explains.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

Research supports the need for academic conversation to provide students with the opportunity to build academic language and conversation skills while providing teachers with a formative assessment to assess student content understanding and language ability.

The skill sets needed to navigate informal, personal social media exchanges are quite different from those needed for academic conversations and collaborative tasks.

It purposefully keeps important information about our students» knowledge, skills and academic progress out of the conversation about school quality and disproportionately hurts children of color, like the scholars I've had the privilege of teaching in urban schools across the country.

Following our recent series on using Socratic seminars with English language learners to build oral language skills, we learned about an exciting new video series from the Teaching Channel focused on academic conversations with ELLs featuring... you guessed it!

Engaged learning strategy: students learn how to have great group conversations that build both academic and social skills

Through our continuous check - ins and conversations, I reinforced the idea that they could grow academically and build skills to support academic achievement.

Substantive conversations are critical for English learners because they provide specific opportunities to practice and build on listening and speaking skills using academic language that coincides with language learning standards and converges common core and state standards.

Their conversation continues, with students analyzing the text using academic language and their cognitive skills to predict, summarize, question, and clarify.