Ebook: Dialogic Readers: Children Talking and Thinking Together about Visual Texts

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 which 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 response 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 21^st century realising how opportunities for children thinking creatively together might transform the potential for learning in the classroom. It provides a framework for analysing co-constructive talk with suggestions for promoting children’s critical and creative thinking.