This month's effective practice is a QSSSA. QSSSA is a strategy to get students to use new academic language during student-student interactions. The teacher asks a question and then asks students to show a signal when they are ready to respond to the question with a particular sentence stem provided by the teacher. When all students are ready to share, they share their answers. Students are then assessed either through random calling on individual students after the conversation or through writing assignments that follow the conversation. (Seidlitz, J.,& PerrymanB., 2008). QSSSA is a great strategy to encourage our students to speak, listen, read and write. It has been very successful in all classroom settings.
Ms. Berry-Owens, a geography and world history teacher from Wheatley High School explains that, “When using QSSSA, everybody was more likely to speak and share, even those who don't normally like to talk were eager to discuss and it even causes the students to use academic language in their conversations.”
A QSSSA is an effective practice that is commonly used with the Literacy Routine, "Let's Talk." Read more information about "Let's Talk" here.
Please post in our comments section! Let us know how YOU use QSSSA in the classroom! If you haven't used it yet, post your concerns or questions!
Ms. Berry-Owens, a geography and world history teacher from Wheatley High School explains that, “When using QSSSA, everybody was more likely to speak and share, even those who don't normally like to talk were eager to discuss and it even causes the students to use academic language in their conversations.”
A QSSSA is an effective practice that is commonly used with the Literacy Routine, "Let's Talk." Read more information about "Let's Talk" here.
Please post in our comments section! Let us know how YOU use QSSSA in the classroom! If you haven't used it yet, post your concerns or questions!