Establishing Turn & Talk

Title of Text

Author

Grade

William’s Doll

Charlotte Zolotow

3rd

Purpose of the Lesson: To establish some routines for discourse by establishing
Turn & Talk

Focus Skill & Objectives: Reading and Literature Strand

1.1 Follow agree-upon rules for discussion (raising one’s hand, waiting one’s turn, speaking one at a time). 

3.2 Maintain focus on the topic.

11.1 Relate themes in work of fiction and nonfiction to personal experience.

PROCESS: Students will watch two other peers discuss a text and use knowledge from their observations to engage in effective conversations with another classmate.

CONTENT: Students will use their schema to make connections with the characters in the text.

Crafting

Connection: Make a connection to students’ previous learning; activate background knowledge

I understand Mrs. Brunault has been working with you to establish how to come to the rug for whole group work each day.  You were able to list some ways it would look and sound; I have taken your ideas and put them on this chart (show sections of the chart).

What?

Why?

How?

However, you might notice that there is another section to my chart today.  There is something else I would like to practice with you that happens when you come to this time.  We call this time CRAFTING.  It is the time when the teacher shows you what readers do and why.

While it is important that you listen and watch to see and hear what the teacher is showing you, it is also important you get to talk about what you are learning. Talking about what you read is a good way to remember the important parts and to understand it better. 

Getting to talk to a classmate about what you think is happening to a character or why an author writes a certain way affects how you feel about reading.  That is what we are looking for today…(read essential question).

Teach Unfamiliar Vocabulary

None (familiar text)

Essential Question: How does feel when you talk about your learning during CRAFTING?

TEACHING POINT: State the WILF

Readers talk with others about what they read.

Today we are going to watch two classmates have a conversation with each other about some of their thinking about the story,  William’s Doll.  They are going to do something called “TURN AND TALK”.  We will watch them and notice what they are doing.  Then we will try it ourselves with our talking buddy.

OK, I think I notice that everyone is ready.  Let’s begin.

Page

Reason for Pause

Turn & Talk Question

P. 14 Father buys basketball to p. 22

Even though William doesn’t ask for them, his father buys him a basketball and a train set. 

Why do you think his father buys him these things and not a doll?

Students watch persons talking about the question.

What did you notice about these persons.  Let’s look to see which of the “looks like, sounds like” suggestions  they used.  

Students share out some of the ideas and find them on the chart.

ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT: model with think aloud stops; TURN & TALK stop

NOW, using these same suggestions, talk to your partner about the same question the students did.

p.22 Grandmother comes to visit. Read to the end, p.32

We can tell the father is upset by the exclamation mark and what he says:  “Why does he need a doll?”  His father doesn’t think he needs one; Grandmother feels the opposite.

What to you think about father’s reaction?  How do you feel about the grandmother’s opinion?  Do you agree or disagree?

Turn and Talk to your partner about your thinking using the suggestions.

LINK to connect new learning:

So let’s go back to the essential question:  How does feel when you talk about your learning during CRAFTING?  What did you notice about how you felt during the time on the rug?  Did you notice that you did the thinking?  Did you notice that you did the talking?  Did you stay on the topic?  How did it feel?  Let’s list a few of the ways we felt on the anchor chart. (see below).  Could we use what we learned today to talk to each other tomorrow and in the future?

Looks like:

• Persons attending to the lesson
• Persons seem interested

Sounds like:

• People participating
• Staying on the topic
• Friendly

Feels like:

• Safe to share ideas
• Respectful
• Comfortable
• Ideas and opinions are accepted

Composing Meaning

NA

Reflection

NA

Materials

• Chart paper (Anchor chart)
• Text for modeling
• Markers
• Icons for anchor chart