Turn and Talk: "Get ready to tell your neighbor, this book was mostly about..."

Notice how the teacher uses sentence stems and the cloze procedure to scaffold the students' language to complete the thought and summarize the story.

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Emily and her second grade students develop their own summarizing statements about the book using a prompt.

Questions to Consider

How does the teacher set developmentally appropriate expectations for oral language and model these for students in different group settings?