ILA E-ssentials

Engaging the Adolescent Learner

Fostering Classroom Discussion About Complex Ideas and Texts

Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey

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Fostering Classroom Discussion About Complex Ideas and Texts

What's Inside

Fisher and Frey show you how to facilitate classroom discussion that goes beyond low-level questions and answers to promote students' deeper understanding of complex text. By employing think-alouds, guided questions, and classroom routines such as annotation and Socratic seminar, teachers can help students to think more deeply about text and have fuller and more purposeful academic conversations.

© 2013 | doi: 10.1598/e-ssentials.8039