Most people listen at less than a quarter of their capacity. We're overwhelmed with information, pulled in different directions, and have usually not been taught the most essential listening skills. The truth is: the simple key to effective listening is wanting to be good at it.…
In this lively and practical book, 20-year teaching veteran Erik Palmer presents an approach aligned to the six Common Core anchor standards for speaking and listening but focused on preparing students for 21st century communication inside and beyond the classroom.
This book presents an approach aligned to the six Common Core anchor standards for speaking and listening, and is focused on preparing students for 21st century communication inside and beyond the classroom.
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 : th…
'Dialogic Readers' 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 pr…
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 re…
Speaking is a dynamic, interpersonal process and one that strongly influences how we are perceived by others in a range of formal and everyday contexts. Despite this, speaking is often researched and taught as if it is simply writing delivered in a different mode. In Teaching an…
Speaking is a dynamic, interpersonal process and one that strongly influences how we are perceived by others in a range of formal and everyday contexts. Despite this, speaking is often researched and taught as if it is simply writing delivered in a different mode. In Teaching an…
Accessible to a non-specialist audience, this book provides an up-to-date summary of current research and issues in the field of teaching and researching speaking that can be applied to classroom practice.
