June 20th Accountable Talk

We began reading into the day about Accountable Talk (AT). We discussed  the“how to" of setting up accountable talk in the classroom. I think one of the most important things to remember about setting up accountable talk is to start building that culture within the first week of school. It is also important to remember to make a quick transition to using accountable talk with content. When students create sentence starters for AT they take ownership and it is in student language.

   We were also given the opportunity to pick our own sessions today. I decided to go to the session on infographics. I was so excited to see this session as I planned my module lessons around infographics. In sixth grade we teach data as our first unit of the year. So I thought students could create a statistical question to research and create a infographic. I would use module creator to look up articles for students to do some research based on their statistical question. When I went to the session I found out about this great website that students could use to create their own infographic. (www.easel.ly/) I think this is a great resource for students to learn how to read visual representations.