Promoting Academic Discourse in the ESL Classroom

A conversation with Gretzeel Mojica on episode 88 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

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Today Gretzeel Mojica @Mojica_CJUSD talks about how she teaches academic discourse in her sixth-grade classroom. Using a recent project on volcanoes as a backdrop, we do a deep dive into how Gretzeel empowers her students to give effective feedback using academic language that they are learning in school. This is not the language us...