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    This document provides sentence starters for students to use during class discussions. It is organized into sections for entering the conversation, supporting ideas with evidence/examples, paraphrasing, building on and challenging ideas, elaborating and clarifying, and synthesizing the conversation. Some sentences starters provide ways for students to engage with each other's ideas, while others help students express their own thoughts.

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    This document provides sentence starters for students to use during class discussions. It is organized into sections for entering the conversation, supporting ideas with evidence/examples, paraphrasing, building on and challenging ideas, elaborating and clarifying, and synthesizing the conversation. Some sentences starters provide ways for students to engage with each other's ideas, while others help students express their own thoughts.

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    Name: _____________________________________ Class: _________________________________

    Discussion Sentence Starters


    Entering the Conversation
    ● An idea I have is…
    ● I noticed that…
    ● I can’t stop thinking about…
    ● I’m wondering…
    ● That reminds me of the book, _____,
    where…
    ● A theory I’m developing is…

    Supporting Ideas with Evidence / Examples


    Providing Examples Asking Group Mates for Examples
    ● For example… ● Can you give evidence from the text?
    ● In the text it said that… ● Where does it say that?
    ● One case that illustrates this is… ● What is a real-world example?
    ● Remember in the story we read that… ● What’s an example of that idea?
    ● I can prove this because…
    ● One example from my life is…

    Paraphrasing
    ● You just said that…
    ● To paraphrase what you just said…
    ● Let me see if I heard you right. You said…
    ● What I understood was…
    ● In other words, you’re saying that…
    ● It sounds like you think that…
    ● I’m hearing that…
    Building on and Challenging
    Building on & Challenging Asking Group Mates to Build on
    ● Building off of what you said,… ● How can we add to the idea of…?
    ● Adding onto what ___ said,... ● What other ideas or examples relate to
    ● I agree with ___, and I want to add… this idea?
    ● That idea connects to… ● What else could support this idea? Why
    or why not?
    ● I found another example of what ___ ● What contradicts this idea?
    brought up on page ___.
    ● I noticed some of the same things that ● What are other points of view?
    ___ did, but I also thought…
    ● I respectfully disagree with ___
    because…
    ● I see it slightly differently because…
    ● I can see your point, but…
    ● Looking at it from a different
    perspective, I think…

    Elaborating and Clarifying


    Elaborating and Clarifying Asking for Elaboration/Clarification
    ● I think it means… ● What do you mean by…?
    ● In other words… ● Can you clarify the part about…?
    ● More specifically it is… ● Can you elaborate on the part about…?
    ● It’s important because… ● Tell me more about…
    ● What I mean to say is… ● How is that important?
    ● It affects readers by… ● Can you reword what you just said
    about…?
    ● Can you be more specific?

    Synthesizing Conversation
    Synthesizing & Summarizing Asking for Synthesis / Summary
    ● We can say that… ● What have we discussed?
    ● We can agree that… ● How can we summarize our points?
    ● Even though some might think… we ● What’s our conclusion?
    conclude that… ● What’s the main point we want to
    ● It all boils down to… communicate?

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