"Meaningful conversation can make learning more personal, immediate, and emotional.
During meaningful conversations, students are forced to be accountable for their positions, to listen, to analyze opposing perspectives, and to adapt their thinking on the fly."
This will be so helpful in our Socratic Seminars!
Sentence stems are exceptional for helping students process thinking. Sheltered instruction (SIOP) strategies are excellent for helping students understand and make personal meaning of learning. Stems with a targeted purpose can help teachers to use them most purposefully.