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Turn and Talk – tips for pair tasks

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Two pupils engaged in a talk partner task, using expressive hand gestures

A recent pair talk task in Salford. I love the way these two children are facing each other and clearly engaged in their discussion.

I came across this Lucy West article a while ago. It’s really useful on the subject of doing partner talk well. Check out the section on pitfalls (page 5):

https://ev4ngelf.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/turn-and-talk.pdf

 
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