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Talk moves
Classroom talk is a tool used in teaching and learning to support students in making sense of complex ideas. Through dialogue students describe observations, explain thinking and make meaning.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Foundation Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6
- Purpose
- Teaching strategies
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Publisher
- NSW Department of Education
- Copyright
- © State of New South Wales, Department of Education, 2017. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Keywords
- angle length tangent ratio cosine ratio sine ratio trigonometric ratios angle of depression angle of elevation
- Other terms
- instructional routine
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