Talking points

If you have not already watched it, Video 4 from the Introductory Video Series provides an overview of talking points, which is a powerful tool for stimulating classroom dialogue.

This reading explains talking points in more detail and promotes strategies and activities to use them in class.

Reading: talking points

Talking tools

Initially, students may need to be offered key phrases which will help them to generate exploratory talk. Learning how to use such phrases – or ‘talk tools’ – is a life skill (Dawes, 2012).

Resource: talk tools

Examples of talking points

Examples of talking points that teachers have used