Honoring and encouraging multiple perspectives and viewpoints
The goal of whole class discussions, as designed here, is to always encourage and elicit multiple perspectives and ideas, both about reading and thinking as well as the content. One way to uphold this could be to encourage the articulation of reading and reasoning if students quickly offer up claims. This makes the “how he or she got there” visible for the other students in the class. Conversely, if students only share about their reading processes, a nice next step might be pushing for them to generate some predictions, inferences, questions, etc. Constantly tethering reading and reasoning together with knowledge-building communicates that the two go hand-in-hand in science.