Author(s): Fiona Maine
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 136
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Language: English
Date Published: 2015-03-25
Dimensions: 156 x 228 x 12mm
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Edition:
Illustrations: 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Tables, black and white

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.