Using Asking Questions about a Story Activity, students Discuss a topic or read a book aloud using Question Cards to help guide questions andanswers about the topic.

Using this Express Your Feelings Character Education Activity, students express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

Using this SL.1.1 First Grade Common Core Lesson, students participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about First Grade topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

This Group Researching Worksheet helps 3rd graders plan a team research project, choose a group job, list the books they used, and write what they learned and how they helped.

This group research writing project worksheet helps 2nd grade students sort research jobs from writing jobs and choose the best way to work with a group. An answer key is included, so practice is quick to check.

This make an audio recording worksheet gives 3rd graders one page to plan the story or poem they will read aloud, their audience, and how their voice will sound, so every recording is clear, expressive, and easy to listen to.

Using Reading Questions Camping Activity, students ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Using Who What When Where Why How Activity, students ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Using the Students Speak Assessment Worksheet, teachers take anecdotalnotes when you hear students speaking with these qualities.

Using this SL.3.6 Third Grade Common Core Lesson, students speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.

Using this SL.4.6 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson, students determine contexts that call for formal English and situations where informal discourse is appropriate.

Using this SL.5.4 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using relevant facts, descriptive details andspeak clearly.

Use this small group discussions checklist worksheet to help 3rd grade students rate how they take part in a reading discussion and write a goal that makes their next group talk better.

The Talking to Peers Assessment Worksheet is a 1st grade teacher form for recording three peer writing conferences, with writer, topic, four behavior checkboxes and note lines on every card.

Using this Discussion Guide for Preparation and Reflection Activity, students prepare for and reflect on a classroom discussion by recording thoughts using the provided worksheet.

Using the Formal or Informal English Activity, students determine contexts that call for formal or informal English language is to be used.

Using this Asking and Answering Questions Activity, students participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Using the After Reading Discussion Cards, students actively engage in group reading activities to discuss purpose and understanding after shared reading.

Using this SL.1.3 First Grade Common Core Lesson, students ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood.

Using this SL.4.1 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson, students engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.