Dialogic Teaching and Deep Dive in Text

Why I choose to use this approach?

Talanoa, Talanoa, Talanoa is crucial for learning or conversation, conversation, conversation.

The ability to communicate or talanoa is a social skills that all children need to master. They can do this with the support of adult by prompting them, guiding and practising. 

This week we embark to talanoa by using DEEP Dive into the text. This strategy has a set structure to follow. The great thing about this approach is that, the students read the text first before coming to the discussion table. 

It is about preparing for discussion, prompting, guiding and practising the approach with the hope that ignite and create deep thinking about text.