Model the discussion first
Before kids discuss, we fishbowl it. Four students talk in the middle while everyone else watches for one thing, like "Who built on someone else's idea?" Then we name what we saw and post the sentence stems on the board.
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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