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    DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING AND SPEAKING

    This activity can help students investigate 01 CHOOSE A TEXT


    multiple perspectives in a text and encourage
    them to express their opinions in English. • A short story or authentic document.
    • Short documents contrasting ideas.
    • An article about a scientific problem.

    What is a Socratic seminar?


    02 PREPARE THE STUDENTS
    It is a formal discussion, based on a text, in
    • Tell them that they are going to discuss a text.
    which the leader asks the rest of the group • Encourage the students to take notes as they read.
    open-ended questions to the rest of the group.
    03 PREPARE THE QUESTIONS
    The purpose of a Socratic Seminar is to
    • You will act as discussion leader.
    achieve a deeper understanding of the ideas
    • Generate as many open-ended questions as possible.
    and values in a text. • Try to connect the questions to their real context.

    04 ESTABLISH YOUR ROLE


    • The teacher’s role is to ask provocative questions that
    drive the discussion.
    • Don’t correct or redirect the debate. Let the students
    feel free to express their thoughts.
    • You may want to summarize ideas at the end of the
    debate and connect them to any related curricular
    contents you may need.

    Try this!
    Create a quick and hands-on debate using a fun prompt to ask your questions:

    Write your questions down on a football while your


    students are reading the text.

    Have the students get up out of their seats and stand


    in a circle.

    Throw the ball to a random student to start the


    debate. The student will read the question which is
    right in front of him/her on the ball out loud and
    answer it.

    Encourage the rest of students to comment on the


    student’s response.

    When the discussion has run its course, ask the students to throw the ball again to a random classmate.

    © Santillana-Richmond

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