Cooperative+Dialogue

Cooperative Dialogue! Cooperative dialogue is an effective strategy used to make meaning of expository text. It does this by creating comprehensible and having student represent information in new ways. Students are able to better understand complex or difficult expository passages by engaging with information in two ways 1) Students first use the text given to represent information differently 2) Listen to other student’s version of their representations How do they represent information? Through Dialogue!

In pairs students are assigned to create a dialogue about two “characters” in a given text or passage. Although it may seem as though students engage in this activity to promote understanding of character development, the focus of this activity is to promote comprehension of expository text. Here’s how it works: 1) As a class students read and article or text on a given subject 2) As a class students graphically organize information from a text/article 3) Students are paired into groups of 2-4 4) Groups write a short dialogue between characters in a passage 5) Dialogues are presented in chronological order to the class ***Important note: Characters don’t always have to be human! “characters” can be animals, parts of nature or, a nucleus and mitochondrion …

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