Tuesday by David Wiesner Socratic Seminar Plan + Extras

Need a way to creatively reach your student's Speaking and Listening standards? Want to assess ALL students based on their thoughts and not what they are able to write down? Socratic Seminar is an amazing way to assess student understanding and find holes in it, too. In addition, students who have difficulty with writing, but are able to verbalize their thinking will find an even playing field.

This seminar on David Wiesner's book, Tuesday, is meant for younger students. I have used it as early as Kindergarten. The questions will need to be scaled back some, maybe only asking one or two. Also, earlier grades focus on the process of seminar and not as much on content. That's not to say that you won't find some very insightful comments occurring in primary seminars. Like anything else, practice makes perfect. You could alternately use this with classes in the intermediate grades if they are just beginning to learn how seminar works. It's very flexible.

What you'll get:
1. How-To instructions for those new to facilitating seminar.
2. List of pre and post seminar activities.
3. Seminar Plan (opening, core and closing questions)
4. Post seminar activity sheet
5. Seminar Web sheet (you can use this for all seminars! Just make extra copies!)