Quality Talk About Text: Discussion Practices for Talking and Thinking About Text (Research-Informed Classroom)

Product Description Teachers know quality talk helps develop students' intelligence. Unfortunately, there hasn't been enough support in showing teachers how to plan for this kind of talk. In this book, authors Ian Wilkinson and Kristin Bourdage bring together research-proven approaches to talk about text and offer teachers different models based on the specific skills they want to develop in students. More than just one approach, theirs is a versatile collection of approaches that will develop and expand students' knowledge and skills. Ian and Kristin provide a menu of approaches to discussion about texts based on different purposes:talk about text to emphasize personal responsetalk about text to emphasize knowledge buildingtalk about text to emphasize argumentation.Organized in a way that allows teachers to dip in and out of the chapters as needed, you'll be able to decide which discussion approaches are most closely aligned with the needs of the moment.With a talk assessment tool, text examples to use with each discussion approach, and links to classroom videos that give you realistic models of what this can look like across a range of grades, you'll have all the resources you need to discover the joys of quality talk about text. About the Author Ian A. G. Wilkinson is a Professor of Literacy in the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University, and Honorary Professor in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Ian studies literacy learning and teaching with a particular focus on classroom talk, discussion, and dialogue. His work has appeared in publications such as Reading Research Quarterly, British Journal of Educational Psychology, American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Educational Psychology, The Elementary School Journal, The Reading Teacher, Learning and Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Language and Education. He is a former editor of Reading Research Quarterly, and co-author of Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading, and The Most Reasonable Answer: Helping Students Build Better Arguments Together.Kristin Bourdage is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Education at Otterbein University, USA. Kristin's earliest teaching assignments were second grade and language arts/reading at the middle level. She currently teaches literacy pedagogy to preservice teachers and facilitates professional development for K-12 teachers in literacy methods, curriculum design, project-based learning, and discussion approaches. Kristin studies classroom talk and discussion. Her latest interests explore the way classroom talk engages students in social emotional development and civic discourse. Her research has appeared in publications such as Language Arts, Language and Education, chapters in edited texts, and the National Reading Conference Yearbook. Kristin presents her work at professional education conferences at state and national levels.Nell K. Duke, Ed.D., is a professor in literacy, language, and culture and also in the combined program in education and psychology at the University of Michigan. Duke received her Bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College and her Masters and Doctoral degrees from Harvard University. Duke's work focuses on early literacy development, particularly among children living in economic poverty. Her specific areas of expertise include the development of informational reading and writing in young children, comprehension development and instruction in early schooling, and issues of equity in literacy education. She has served as Co-Principal Investigator of projects funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the George Lucas Educational Foundation, among other organizations. Duke has been named one of the most influential education scholars in the U.S. in EdWeek. In 2014, Duke was awarded the P. Davi