DIALOGIC LEARNING CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS AND WRITERS

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   Liz Simon     2024    

Are you questioning whether you have time during classroom hours for individual conversations with readers and writers. Reading this book, you will find information that will more than assist you in this endeavour.

Reading Robin Alexander’s, 2017, Towards Dialogic Teaching: rethinking classroom talk, his direction was towards small groups and their talk. I put this into practise in the classroom. Some groups this worked well, others it did not.

I had previously read … Accountable talk in an unaccountable context (Robin Alexander, 2010) and I wondered, am I asking too much of the children … accountable talk in an unaccountable context of small pupil discussion groups.

What came to mind was context accountability - the teacher

forwarding knowledgeable learning during supportive class learning. Shared Reading is the teaching strategy and after the first enjoyable reading, deconstruction of the text with a learning focus in mind. Similarly, Shared Writing, constructing text in front of the children. Planned activities follow, reinforcing the new learning. The context (prior learning) prepares children for accountable equal-type 1-1 conversations.

 

And how children are engaged when meeting and talking with their teacher 1-1 during a designated time of the school day! 

The teachers love it because it happens during independent pleasurable reading and independent writing; this does not add to the workings in the classroom. 

The pedagogy is geared towards supporting and purposely giving children prior knowledge before duologues happen. Initiating and deliberately developing equal team-type relationships. 

 

 This leads to my book Dialogical Learning Conversations with Readers and Writers (there is a section about Reading and a section about Writing. 

 I am offering copies of my complete book, not bound, but in loose-leaf form, to be sent via e-mail to you. To request copies of my book email me: 

liz.simon@laspedagogy.com

 

As well, but not obligatory, send X amount of money to a charity (can be of your choosing). Three I suggest are:

The smithfamily

https://www.thesmithfamily.com.au/child/donations

Unicef Australia

unicef.org.au 

Autistic Aspect Donate now. There are other Autistic Associations.

All donations $2 and above are tax deductible in Australia.

Cheers

Liz