Academic Conversations Bundle! webinar at Interior Health and the

at Interior Health and the Central Okanagan Child Development Association (now known as Starbright Children's Development Centre)

helping students to expand their vocabulary and word choices in a way that is fun

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Responses to others’ feelings and perspectives

and for individual students to assist them in re-telling

Academic Conversations Bundle! webinar at Interior Health and theAcademic Conversations includes a set of conversational concepts that can be modeled and practiced to help all students engage in extended meaningful conversation about narrative or informational texts (Zweirs, 2011). The skills include the following: Initiating a worthwhile topic Elaborating and clarifying Supporting one's ideas and turn taking Building on or challenging another's ideas Applying ideas to life Paraphrasing Summarizing Includes: Oral