Transition+to+Writing

ReadWriteThink.org Greece County Schools || ===The Socratic Seminar is used to engage students in deeper thinking about texts by teaching them to ask high level questions, listen to classmates respond, and respond to questions themselves. Allows them to process views on a claim.===  LESSON IDEA (COMMON CORE) [|Socratic Seminar: Supporting Claims and Counterclaims (5 min)] media type="custom" key="23224950" || ReadWriteThink.org || ===Raft allows students to think about their topic through a different point of view by taking on an imaginary role.=== ||  TEACHING PRACTICE media type="custom" key="23224984"
 * ==**Socratic Seminar**==
 * ==**RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, Topic)**==
 * ==**Post-it Note Discussion (See Video Below)**== || ===Post-it Note Discussion allows students to "hold their thinking" on paper while they discuss the text with other students and the teacher.===

|| One Pager Two Pager Six Pager || ===These templates scaffold the fundamentals of quality argumentation. Students learn how to incorporate counterarguments.=== ||  LESSON IDEA (COMMON CORE) [|Analyzing Texts: "Text Talk Time" (7 min)] Grade 5 / ELA / Discussion media type="custom" key="23224996"
 * ==They Say, I Say==
 * ==Text Talk Time== || ===A class structure that allows students to process ideas through organized discussion. This teacher demonstrates how she uses sentence stems to scaffold the conversation.===

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 * ==Four Corners (can be a task engagement as well)== || ===Students move to different corners that represent different points of view. They write down on post-its or chart paper evidence from their research to support these views.=== ||