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Worksheet: Features of Shared Inquiry Discussion

For each feature, write down the benefit you expect it would have for your students. When you've finished, please print this page for your reference.
Feature: Student Benefit:
1. The leader poses a question that can be validly answered in more than one way.
2. The leader allows time for students to write their ideas before sharing them.
3. The leader only asks questions.
4. The leader often asks students to support their ideas with evidence from the text.
5. The leader asks students to listen to and consider the ideas of others.
6. The leader and the group remain focused on the question posed at the beginning of discussion.

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Getting Started with Great Books in the Classroom

Click here to read the JGB text for Jack and the Beanstalk.

The best introduction to Shared Inquiry and using Junior Great Books is the Basic Leader Training Course.
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