TK Teaches

Trying to make your accountable talk work fit very different learners? Just don't have enough space on your walls and charts for all the prompts and reminders good conversation might need? Getting overwhelmed? These bookmarks break discussion skills into four big categories: - Depth - Respect (both in speaking and in listening) - Balance among speakers - Getting quieter students to find an entry point. They provide tips, prompts, and reminders for kids to work towards their own personal goals

Calculation? That's the easy stuff. Metacognition is the hard part. Getting students to take a step back and think about their own thought process is both so challenging and so important. It's the first step to growing their agency as mathematicians - and beginning to make plans and goals about how to get stronger. This is a set of thought prompts that students can use to reflect about their math process, both in conversation with a group or partner or in their math notebooks in writing. These

Prompts to push your students' thinking about reading - so they always have them with their books. These are originally to be used with TCRWP's Interpreting Characters unit of study, but they can be used with any reading (especially but not only narrative reading). They can be helpful both for writing or "jotting" about reading or for having conversations with their book clubs or partners. There's space for students to add their own starters, too!