Active Reading Thinking Stems, Academic Conversation Cards/Starters, Strategies

Academic conversation starters will help get your students talking. Each strategy provides thinking stems to help the students use academic language when discussing something they have read. Strategies/skills include the following:

-Synthesize

-Connect

-Visualize

-Paraphrase

-Build On

-Challenge

-Clarify

-Finding Supporting Evidence

These academic conversation starters work well in both small group and class discussions.

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