Talk moves anchor chart classroom

Learn how to guide math talk with these essential math talk moves. Grab a free classroom poster to use with your students to get you started!

Accountable Talk in the Grade 1 Classroom | Ms. Gaffen's Grade 1 Class

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!

Classroom discourse anchor

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…

Anchor charts don't have to be complicated. As a matter of fact, they shouldn't be... especially for primary children. I once read that...

Right before Winter Break I created this Anchor Chart to remind the kiddos about some of the Accountable Talk phrases we have discussed. Accountable Talk essentially means actively participating in academic conversation. In other words, the kiddos take turns speaking, provide proof for their opinions, add to previous comments, and disagree appropriately. This type of academically-based conversation encourages the kiddos to think before they speak and really listen to each other. I found this…

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Rules for participating in turn and talks. Students can use the anchor chart as a reference to practice setting and enforcing these rules. Turn and talk can happen with fixed student grouping or flexible grouping.

Accountable Talk Anchor Chart. Dialogic talk is where students do all of the talking. They formulate thoughtful questions among each other to drive the conversation. Use this anchor chart to guide the talking.