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Play the Let’s Talk! card game to develop students’ academic discussion skills

The aim of the Let’s Talk! card game is to motivate students to practise the communication skills needed for productive academic discussion in Mathematics, Science or the Humanities. The cards illustrate ‘talk moves’ students can use to engage in discussion and, on the flip side, provide language scaffolds in the form of sentence stems to help them do this. Each sentence stem represents a specific “academic conversation skill”. (Zwiers & Crawford, 2011).

Click here to download the Let’s Talk! card game manual.

Find out how to use the Let’s Talk! card game in your classroom in this microlearning unit.

Reference
Zwiers, J. & Crawford, M. (2011). Academic conversations: Classroom talk that fosters critical thinking and content understandings. Portland, MA: Stenhouse.

To find out more about the Let’s Talk! card game, please contact MOE_ELIS_Academy@moe.gov.sg.