Uncategorized – Let’s Talk About Talk

LET’S TALK about What We Learned

During this journey, we focused our research on one question: “How can we use classroom talk to foster an inviting classroom culture?”. We started by gathering articles that talked about both classroom talk and classroom culture. We wanted to make sure that each article we chose was relevant to our research question. The next stepContinue reading “LET’S TALK about What We Learned”

LET’S TALK about The Cultural Model

WHAZZZZUUUUPPPPP my fellow readers! It’s Jordan again and today I would like to talk more about the Cultural Model in classrooms. To discuss Cultural Modeling Framework I will discuss what I learned from an article I read written by Carol D. Lee titled: ‘Every good‐bye ain’t gone’: Analyzing the cultural underpinnings of classroom talk CarolContinue reading “LET’S TALK about The Cultural Model”

LET’S TALK about DIT

It’s Janessa here, with a little more information on Dialogic classroom talk! The article that I chose to feature is linked here below, if you choose to check it out. Reznitskaya, A. (2012). Dialogic teaching: Rethinking language use during literaturediscussions. Reading Teacher, 65(7), 446–456. https://doi.org/10.1002/TRTR.01066 Now, a little about the author… Alina Reznitskaya is theContinue reading “LET’S TALK about DIT”

LET’S TALK about Class Discourse

Hi! This is Katie again! Today I am going to talk to you about what I learned from the article “The many faces of gertrude: Opening and closing possibilities in classroom talk – teachers’ and students’ understandings of classroom culture affect students’ development of critical thinking abilities. two classrooms with contrasting cultures are described here”.Continue reading “LET’S TALK about Class Discourse”

LET’S TALK about cognitive thinking

What’s up my fellow readers! It is THE GREATEST BLOGGER in the North East…. Jordan, Classroom Talk, Holmes coming at you with another Blog. Classroom talk is important and the language we use with children influences many assets in the child’s life. The article I chose to annotate today is Talking in class: Remembering whatContinue reading “LET’S TALK about cognitive thinking”

LET’S TALK About Local

Hi! This is Katie and I want to share what I learned about creating a welcoming classroom community that supports students’ virtual schoolbag and fund of knowledge. To learn more about this, I read “Trusting the local: Opening up the script with response-able talk practices”. Maureen P. Boyd and Elizabeth Tyann, Associate Professors of educationContinue reading “LET’S TALK About Local”

LET’S TALK About ELLs

It’s time to talk! This is Janessa here with you to discuss an article that gives insight to conversations in the classroom for English Language Learners (ELLs)! The article and study, “Inviting conversation: meaningful talk about texts for English language learners”, was written by Joyce Purdy. Purdy is an Educational Consultant at the University ofContinue reading “LET’S TALK About ELLs”

LET’S TALK About Dialogue

Welcome Back! While we’ve been away, we have refined our research question. We will now be focusing on the question: How can we use classroom talk to foster an inviting classroom culture? For our first article annotation we choose “MODEL2TALK: An Intervention to Promote Productive Classroom Talk”. Chiel van der Veen, Femke van der WiltContinue reading “LET’S TALK About Dialogue”

LET’S TALK about Why

Let’s begin with what we already know! From what we have already learned in our previous classes, we know classroom talk affects the culture, discourse, relationships, and other variables in the classroom. The culture is affected by attitude, motivation, and knowledge which can be expressed and established through talk both explicitly and implicitly. It expressesContinue reading “LET’S TALK about Why”

LET’S TALK about Us

Hello and welcome to our blog! The three of us have created this blog to share our research on Classroom Talk. Read more about us as individuals below! To visit a website about Classroom talk, click here. I am Janessa Davis, and as a pre-service teacher, I am currently in my second semester of practicum. AsContinue reading “LET’S TALK about Us”