Since effective instructional talk between students and teachers help English learners develop speaking and listening skills, as well as improve their understanding of written texts, students need lots of opportunities to engage in meaningful conversations about texts they read. My goal for this project was to experience what it takes to facilitate effective instructional talk, or conversations, in my ESL lessons. After researching what made conversations "effective" or "ineffective," I chose one of my third grade groups comprised of six bilingual students to put my theoretical understanding...