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The vignette above demonstrates one of several structures one teacher used regularly in her instruction-connecting what students knew and had studied to the work they were about to start.Ms. Chamorro taught the structuring of responses (structuring not often found in many U.S. K-12 classrooms), including the use of academic language and complete sentences.The teacher also facilitated the students'

Structured Spaces of Play in a Southwestern U.S. Urban Elementary Classroom: Dialectics of Community and Academic Rigor