Includes bibliographical references and index. Machine generated contents note: 1. Real Talk: What It Is and Why It Is Important 2. Exploring the Aesthetic: Talking the Way from Unconscious Enjoyment to Conscious Delight 3. Productive Digressions: When Best-Laid Plans Give Way to Student-Led Discussions 4. The Contingent Third Turn: Listening to Scaffold Response-Ability 5. Reading Your Audience: Reading Aloud as Opportunity for Literate Talk 6. Learning Felicity: Morning Meeting, Reading Logs, and Talking about Books 7. Talking through Weaving and Weaving through Talking: Crocheting a Classroom Community 8. Constancy and Variety: Multiple Opportunities for Literacy Learning through Real Talk Glossary.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Real Talk: What It Is and Why It Is Important 2. Exploring the Aesthetic: Talking the Way from Unconscious Enjoyment to Conscious Delight 3. Productive Digressions: When Best-Laid Plans Give Way to Student-Led Discussions 4. The Contingent Third Turn: Listening to Scaffold Response-Ability 5. Reading Your Audience: Reading Aloud as Opportunity for Literate Talk 6. Learning Felicity: Morning Meeting, Reading Logs, and Talking about Books 7. Talking through Weaving and Weaving through Talking: Crocheting a Classroom Community 8. Constancy and Variety: Multiple Opportunities for Literacy Learning through Real Talk Glossary.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.