Chalk talk

Our teaching strategy for the week is Chalk Talk!! Mrs. Monahan had a great instructional activity she used in her classroom with her Psychology students. After a unit on gender roles, her student…

Use the chalk talk teaching strategy to get your whole class sharing their ideas without all talking at once. Try this silent discussion technique.

I love using Chalk Talk in my classroom! It’s gets kids totally involved, but the classroom is SILENT! It’s crazy fun and super cool to see the participation of my students! What’s Chalk Talk? Chalk Talk is a term that is used in numerous different ways…but this is how I use Chalk Talk! Students pair […]

Pinkadots Elementary : Making Thinking Visible & Freebie

Chalk Talk What I did: At the beginning of each year, we activate students background knowledge about literacy. The purpose of this is to share experiences and beliefs. This year, we used the Chalk Talk, a silent visual conversation, to share those beliefs. Connect: Last year, I used the Chalk Talk and loved the way that all student voices were expressed and "heard". As we dove into literacy as a class, I was reluctant to do the usual charts as a whole class, "Why do we read? Why do we…

At the beginning of a unit of inquiry, a teacher has the important responsibility of creating a desire within her students to know about and understand a particular concept. During this initial “invitation” phase of the inquiry, teachers need to set up learning engagements where students can feel safe enough to take risks, ask questions, explore, be engaged, share their background knowledge, and to think outside the box. Yes, this initial step is a pre-assessment; it is essential that the…

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History Chalk Talk: TALKING CHIPS Teaching Strategy

​The Chalk Talk routine asks learners to consider: ideas questions problems by responding silently to writing to the prompt and the thoughts of others.

Chalk Talk routine with grade 4.

History Chalk Talk: FOUR CORNERS Teaching Strategy

Connect: Each Friday we work on non-fiction with Mrs. Jackson's homeroom. Students pair up and read articles from 'Scholastic News' and 'Time for Kids' to extend their thinking. (For more details, please read my post about our red, yellow, and green light thinking routine.) Chalk talk was the first thinking routine we tried during this time and I found it to be pretty effective- when explicitly taught and modeled. What I did: The first week we used this I thought I was doing a great job…

Research proves that the best way to learn is to teach. The Jigsaw reading strategy is a cooperative activity in which students take on the role of "experts" about an assigned reading passage or topic and teach the information to their group members. The benefits of this strategy include: 1. It will help students with various reading abilities gain comprehension. 2. It will save a lot of time when there is a lot of content to teach. 3. Students will be able to practice listening and speaking…

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This article outlines how educators can use the Chalk Talk Thinking Routine to engage students in visible thinking.

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