| Description |
1 online resource (92 pages) |
| Contents |
Book cover; title; copyright; contents; acknowledgments; introduction: talk for learning; chapter 1 talk toolkits of teachers and children; chapter 2 on the carpet; chapter 3 ground rules for exploratory talk; chapter 4 speaking and listening for reading and writing; chapter 5 talk for learning across the curriculum; chapter 6 talk about opinions and feelings; chapter 7 decision learning; chapter 8 creating a speaking and listening classroom; bibliography; additional references and further reading; websites |
| Summary |
Providing children with opportunities to talk about their learning enables teachers to hear what children are thinking. Talking with one another allows children to question, elaborate, and reflect on a range of ideas. Classroom talk can be motivating and involving, and helps children to think and learn. And yet it is difficult to organise such talk in a classroom. Children unaware of the importance of talk for learning may think of talk as 'just chat' - and learning falls away as they slip into social talk. This book provides teachers with strategies and resources to enable whole classes to wo |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203844793 |
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0203844793 |
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1282912909 |
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9781282912908 |
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