1. What seem to be the most important points?
This was a great article and very easy to follow and understand. I felt like the most important points of this article were the types of questions that teachers choose to ask children. This is a very important step in the Text Talk process. Teachers need to choose questions that will initiate elaborated responses instead of one-word responses. Besides asking the appropriate questions, another important point was not to reveal the pictures until after questioning is in place. Seeing pictures before questioning leads to two things. The picture will either mislead them to thinking the story goes a different direction, or children will use the picture to know what is going on instead of listen to the storyline.
2. Summarize the key steps in planning and performing a Text Talk lesson.
- Choosing the appropriate text: There should be a complexity of events and intellectually challenging, allowing children to explore ideas and language.
- Follow-up questions: Teacher should provide thought-provoking questions that invoke more than a one-word response, asking children to interact with decontextualized language.
- Pictures: Pictures should be presented after the questions, making students draw inferences from their understanding of the storyline.
- Background knowledge: Teachers can acknowledge a student’s comment while pointing out the distinction between what actually occurred in the story and what happened in their own experiences, focusing on what happened in the story.
- Vocabulary: Teachers need to point out unfamiliar vocabulary, emphasizing it’s meaning and allowing students to use it in context. They also need to maintain the use of these words, keeping up with them using charts.
Crystal
It is clear that you understand the main points of this article. You also did a great job summarizing the article in a way that anyone reading your answers would understand the topic.
Very nice detail of the steps included in this lesson! You were very explanatory and did a great job!
Your response clearly showed that you understood the article. You also did a great job organizing your answers in a way that made them easy to understand and if someone how never read the article read this post they would easily grasp the important points from the article.
Great discussion, Crystal. I like your clear language and response. Please note the following:
In your sentence: “instead of listen to…” you should use gerund after the proposition “of” as in “instead of listenING to…”
In your sentence “There should be a complexity of events and intellectually challenging, allowing children to explore ideas and language.” The word “challenging is an adjective but it is missing what it modifies a NOUN. You should says “intellectually challenging content” for example.
You used the apostrophe wrong in the following “emphasizing it’s meaning and allowing students.” You should have written “its”. You use the apostrophe with “it” when it is the subjects and the verb “is” is contracted: “It’s” instead of “It is.”
Great response again.
~Dr. Ari
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