Full Description
Describing effective, creative strategies for talking with students in ways that enhance literacy learning, this book offers a window into the classrooms of four exemplary teachers. Principles of productive classroom discussions are illustrated with detailed case examples. The book shows how—and explains why—real talk can enhance student engagement, foster critical thinking, promote mastery of literacy concepts, and instill a lasting love of reading. It offers ideas for selecting children's literature and fitting a range of interactive literacy activities into the school day. The authors draw on current knowledge about the connections between oral language and literacy development across the elementary grades.
Contents
Foreword, Don Rubin
_x000D_ 1. Real Talk: What It Is and Why It Is Important _x000D_ 2. Exploring the Aesthetic: Talking the Way from Unconscious Enjoyment to Conscious Delight _x000D_ 3. Productive Digressions: When Best-Laid Plans Give Way to Student-Led Discussions _x000D_ 4. The Contingent Third Turn: Listening to Scaffold Response-Ability _x000D_ 5. Reading Your Audience: Reading Aloud as Opportunity for Literate Talk _x000D_ 6. Learning Felicity: Morning Meeting, Reading Logs, and Talking about Books _x000D_ 7. Talking through Weaving and Weaving through Talking: Crocheting a Classroom Community _x000D_ 8. Constancy and Variety: Multiple Opportunities for Literacy Learning through Real Talk _x000D_
Glossary
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