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Blog and Share Resources That Support Socratic Seminars

  • Posted by Susan Ruckdeschel
  • On 21 July, 2015
  • 7 Comments

DSC00110Socratic seminars can work at any grade level. Let’s use this blog space to share resources as they support Socratic seminars: video, digital, or printable resources – let’s focus on our own classrooms and grade levels that we teach, and discuss the possibilities in this blog.

  1. First, tell us why you chose the resource.
  2. Next, provide us with a link to the resource and a brief description of it.
  3. Explain how the resource works effectively, or has the potential to work effectively, with struggling readers.

7 Comments

Paul Manrique
I chose Words Their Way. This program is a developmental spelling program where students work with level-appropriate word sorts to improve their understanding of the English written language. Word sorts are simply sets of words which fall into certain spelling, sound, or semantic categories. This program has a special edition for English Language Learners that focuses on struggling readers. In this program, students are given tasks to sense of words on their own terms, like scientists or detectives, in which they look for patterns in spelling and sound in order to categorize the words. The program does not teach spelling rules but instead offers opportunities for hands-on, developmentally appropriate word work that leads to a greater understanding. There is an inventory (assessment) that does not look primarily at how many words were correct or incorrect. Instead it concentrates on the components of the written language where students experience difficulty. Once the assessment has been tallied, the students are placed in a specific stages of developmental spelling. They then begin working with word sorts appropriate to that stage. Here is an online resource on how to set up the program: http://www.elltoolbox.com/words-their-way.html#.Vigdpmflvs0 Here is another resource for the developmental stage word lists and sorts that are reproducible: http://barton.mpls.k12.mn.us/words_their_way
Eric Stegemann
I chose NoRedInk.com as my resource. I use this resource at the beginning of the year as a way to provide grammar instruction and also to get some data on student preformance. Students begin by answering a series of questions based on their interests and the program then generate practices based off these interests. NoRedInk offers grammar lessons at many different levels and the data it generates allows me to differentiate practice for all of my students. Students are able to then use their newfound skills in writing and grammar to better understand the writing they read and to produce better writing. You can find all of the information you need at NoRedInk.com
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Nancy Allen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wykpQc6YNSg I chose this video from YouTube as an example of a Socratic seminar in third grade. This is an inclusion classroom. It helps to give me a grasp on how to conduct a seminar when I've never done it before. They really seem like they would be effective at any grade level. I like that this strategy would work well with all ages, including ELL, and students with varying exceptionalities. Everyone has a voice, and their ideas are heard. We all need to be heard.
Monica Leon
Both of these resources came to me as I researched for Socratic Seminars in the past. Both resources are high quality resources.The first one are guides to specifc works of literature. From the second one I received a very thorough guide for implementation and a poster to use for reference for procedures. 1. Teacher's Discovery ela@teachersdiscovery.com via s6.csa1.acemsb1.com 2. julia@teachersonpoint.com via n.convertkit.com
monica leon
I like to share these two resources because they are both high quality. 1. julia@teachersonpoint.com via n.convertkit.com From this resource I received a How To guide. It is very thorough and geared for middle school teachers. I also got a poster of procedures and language of discussion. 2. Teacher's Discovery ela@teachersdiscovery.com via s6.csa1.acemsb1.com This source is more specific. These are guides created for specifc words of literature. They include how to guide, rubrics and all kinds of helpful resources.
Heather S-S
I chose an article from Edutopia. I find that Edutopia can breakdown some of the most difficult things to make sense, whether a video or an article. Many of their articles also provide extra links to PDFs or websites. This one links me to Avid website and stem questions. I am a person who needs to read the "how to's" several times. It is also helpful to me to read it from different sources. This article provided me with the steps and included other things this teacher found useful. I particularity like the list of content and academic words on the wall and the kids were tracked for using them by the teacher and their peers. Establishing a clear metric ( a provided PDF) and allowing the kids to know what it is, lets me listen and make notations for grades. At times struggling readers can be left behind when they think the task is too difficult. If we have met in small groups to read the text, asked, written and answered our High quality text based questions they will be prepared for our seminar. If we have gone over vocab and they see the anchor chart for reference this is also helpful. Creating question stems and having them laminated for our strugglers as well as letting them understand what I am looking for as an active participant in the seminar has the potential to give them the confidence they need to be present during the seminar. https://www.edutopia.org/blog/socratic-seminars-culture-student-led-discussion-mary-davenport

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