ABSTRACT

Creative Dialogue is an essential guide to dialogic learning for every trainee and practising teacher. It presents practical ways of teaching children to be more thoughtful and creative, and to learn more effectively through speaking and listening in school and at home.

The book includes:

  • practical ways to develop dialogic learning across the curriculum
  • a guide to developing talk for thinking in the classroom
  • more than 100 activities for stimulating talk with children of all ages and abilities
  • advice on using dialogue to support assessment for learning
  • ideas for developing listening skills and concentration.

Written by a leading expert in teaching thinking, Creative Dialogue is essential reading for all who wish to understand and develop dialogic learning in education today.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|14 pages

Listening

Learning to attend

chapter 2|24 pages

Questions for Thinking

chapter 3|21 pages

Creative Talk for Thinking

chapter 4|32 pages

Critical Talk

Developing verbal reasoning

chapter 5|22 pages

Talking to Learn Across the Curriculum

chapter 6|19 pages

Talking Together

Talk to think in groups

chapter 7|24 pages

Extending Talk for Thinking

chapter 8|22 pages

Dialogic Assessment

chapter 9|10 pages

The Dialogic Future