Talk like a comic strip
Draw two speech bubbles on the board and have two kids "say" something. Then rewrite their words as a sentence with quotation marks around just the spoken part. The bubble shows exactly what goes inside the marks.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
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