- 136 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Dialogic Readers: Children talking and thinking together about visual texts celebrates the sophisticated and dynamic discussions that primary-aged children can have as they talk together to make meaning from a variety of texts, and it highlights the potential for talk between readers as a tool for critical and creative thinking. It proposes a new dialogic theory of reading comprehension that incorporates multi-modal media and adds further weight to the argument that talk as a tool for learning should form a central part of primary classroom learning and teaching.
The book explores:
• the language of co-construction
• children's critical and creative responses to text
• the dialogic transaction between text and readers
• the use of language as a tool for creating a social cohesion between readers.
This significant work is aimed at educational lecturers, researchers and students who want to explore an expanded notion of reading comprehension in the twenty-first century, realizing how opportunities for children thinking creatively together might transform the potential for learning in the classroom. It provides a framework for analyzing co-constructive talk with suggestions for promoting children's critical and creative thinking.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Making meaning together and from text
- 3 Talking together: the language of co-construction
- 4 Thinking together: responding critically and creatively
- 5 Reading together: transactional strategies for making meaning
- 6 Reflecting together: the importance of self-monitoring and metacognition
- 7 Learning together: social cohesion as the foundation for co-constructive talk
- 8 From research into practice
- References
- Index