Dialogic Readers

<p><em>Dialogic Readers: Children talking and thinking together about visual texts</em> 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 that 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.</p><p>The book explores:</p><p>• the language of co-construction</p><p>• children’s critical and creative responses to text</p><p>• the dialogic transaction between text and readers</p><p>• the use of language as a tool for creating a social cohesion between readers.</p><p>This significant work is aimed at educational lecturers researchers and students who want to explore an expanded notion of reading comprehension in the twenty-first century realizing how opportunities for children thinking creatively together might transform the potential for learning in the classroom. It provides a framework for analyzing co-constructive talk with suggestions for promoting children’s critical and creative thinking. </p>