Clip 5/6: Day 19: Continued encouragement of student participation and clear thinking

Paraphrasing and Extending Discourse: Early in the year, as Patty Ferrant’s students discuss whether they agree with Student A or Student B, one student shares her thinking, and then Patty asks her students to work with their partner to “restate what she [the student] just said.”





In so doing, Patty builds the expectation that students will be attending to their peers during whole-group sharing, as well as the expectation that students will become able to turn what they hear into their own statements.