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July 16, 2021

Claim-Evidence-Reasoning Tool Kit

This tool kit includes a researched-based approach to implementing a claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) approach in secondary classrooms. The toolkit includes suggestions for classroom components to improve argumentation in the classroom, examples of units and supports involving CER, and resources to support implementing CER in your science classroom. Please begin with CER toolkit list and the CER introductory video when the folder downloads.

July 15, 2021

Encouraging Academic Conversations with Talk Moves

This 4 minute nine second video presented by Edutopia, demonstrates how teachers can help their students feel more confident in having classroom discussions by providing sentence starters that promote academic thinking and academic language.

July 15, 2021

Goals for Productive Discussions and Nine Talk Moves

This one page handout with nine talk moves is a guide to utilize with students when engaging in academic discussions. It contains specific goals and sentence starters for students to use and track in either a group or partner setting. Once students acquire the talk moves, they are able to fluently add more, rebut, or question others’ contributions, leading to productive discussions and enhanced speaking skills.