Building Bridges Through Discussion

Teaching Today

Class discussions are dynamic spaces for students to be meaning makers and critical thinkers, and offer unique opportunities for processing ideas, building new concepts with peers, and internalizing key learning points. But the ephemeral nature of discussions is a challenge, because although discussions ends, the learning components within them should be transferable in future reading and writing practices. In this episode, we’re talking with Brian Veprek, a Strategic Curricular Solutions Architect at NewsELA about the connections between reading, writing, speaking, and listening, and how literacy is a bridge to cognition.