Focus: Introducing and establishing self-check and partner-check routines
Talking groups – Poster
Collaborating with different students is stimulating and supportive and offers students opportunities to talk, share and reflect on their learning.
Purpose: Use the poster to establish different groupings in your classroom.
Talking groups – More information
This document contains further information about each of the groupings included in the poster.
Purpose: use this document in conjunction with the poster to explicitly teach each of the groupings so that students can easily form these different groups during the day.
RELATED RESOURCES
Book:
Check out The Oral Language Book for more ideas about organising talk in the classroom.
Focus: Introducing and establishing self-check and partner-check routines
Includes: Two templates (for planning and writing) and a completed example
Focus: Labelling and writing an explanation
Includes: Pattern poem template, pattern poem exemplar, pattern poem publishing template
Focus: Writing, vocabulary