How did it go? Conversations in our classroom that worked

We have identified flaws in ways the writing and then responding has been carried out in the past. We have found some ways to change the system to make it work in our classrooms. More waiting time provides for more complete sentences. For our struggling speakers, we created sentence starters or cloze statements that encouraged speaking in complete sentences. Offering options for responses is helpful. We think that giving other students who are more secure/self assured in their speaking abilities an opportunity to speak first, that could give others examples and time to listen. Some of our kids are in silent periods, some of it is cultural... speaking is hard to do in front of people. Option: Recording responses to questions, record reading, everything they do they are going to record. Power Point/recording through out the year: look at the progression= what do you notice about your recording? what has changed? What has stayed the same?