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Always relate it to them. They love to talk about themselves and current events that are important in their world. If you can relate that to the topic they are immediately interested.

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Present the topic with an opportunity to respectfully disagree; once their opinions feel relevant, the conversation becomes more meaningful

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You can create student discussions from anything content related or not.

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Ask question that spark their interest and learning style.

Also, ask questions that are relevant(Trending social media topics)

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Dialogue between 2 or more students. Relevant to the topic.

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Choose topics students are interested in

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Choose topics students are interested in

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Speak to them

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Turn and Talk
Socratic Seminars
Padlet
Discusson Posts (Schoology)

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Circle talks - peer remediation

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When students are struggling with academic vocabulary, providing sentence stems can really show them how to develop the language you want to hear, while still have the deep and meaningful conversations we need them to learn from.

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A one on one conversation with the teacher about the topic at hand.

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Relatable Content

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Do a student discussion first with something they actually like talking about first, then they will know how to do it when we change it to academic discussions.

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Do a student discussion first with something they actually like talking about first, then they will know how to do it when we change it to academic discussions.

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Tie the topic to something relevant today

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Give students a list of vocab terms they need to use in their conversation, to encourage the use of academic language

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Sentence stems or starters

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Provide multiple opportunities for them to discuss so it’s the normal

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Ask about what was discussed yesterday

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Provide relevant topics for discussion

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Real world connection or opinion related beyond yes and no

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Engaging content
Competitions

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Demo examples

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Give students an open ended questions to guide the conversations

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Give them a topic they can relate too

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Relevance

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Start with an icebreaker to get students comfortable

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Sentence stems/starters

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Make it simple and relatable