Grand Conversation

Grand conversatons are students centered discussions as compared to teacher led conversations. The students are able to support their views with examples from the stories, make connections, question ideas, reflecting on their feelings in the connection with the story. They make connections; self to text, text to other texts, and text to world.

Students do not raise their hands, they take turns speaking, and they encourage their classmates to participate.

This is a two part process. Student centered and teacher , responding to the students , asking questions and providing information. Part two, the teacher focuses the student's attention on one or two topics thath they did not cover during the first discussion