Language Arts - Oral Language, Dec 1996

Talk plays a critical role in children’s learning to synthesize and in teachers’ research into new visions of synthesis instruction

The authors suggest ways to rethink instruction in book club discussions so that students who seem to be resistant actually engage themselves with the books they are reading.

This article illustrates the power of conversation in successful co-authoring and shows how that power can be tapped to enhance the quality of students’ writing and the writing experience itself.

Using picturebook text to initiate dialogue improvisations and patterned conversations provides children acquiring English with meaningful, low-risk opportunities to use and learn English.

If students are to develop their own writers’ voices, they must be given the time to mull over and make changes to their writing and to discuss and appreciate the voice in the writing of others.