This essential guide unpacks the role of classroom talk in literacy learning, offering transcripts, strategies, and activities to help teachers strengthen oral language across the curriculum and grades.

By Christine Edwards-Groves and Christina Davidson

This book is the result of a year-long research project, ‘Researching dialogic pedagogies for literacy learning across the primary years’. This project was funded and supported by PETAA through the PETAA Research Grant (PRG) first awarded in 2015/16.

The book provides core understandings that allow educators to say definitive things about talk and interaction in classrooms so as to bring about changes to their practices.

Listening and speaking are acknowledged as being central for the development of language and literacy and necessary for supporting reading and writing development (and the teaching and learning of it) in schools.

Each chapter features:

• Lesson transcripts that are provided as explanatory technologies and the authors recommend readers refer to and use the detailed transcription chapter (Chapter 2) as a resource and guide for reading and understanding the transcripts provided.
• Key word boxes that identify some central terms introduced in the chapter
• Key points sections which summarise the main points made in each section
• Learning activities which engage the reader in a range of relevant tasks designed to further develop understanding of the specific chapter focus.

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