Further reading

last updated:September 2006

What else might I enjoy reading?

Alexander, R., (2004) Towards dialogic teaching – rethinking classroom talk. York: Dialogos.
 
Brown G. & Wragg, E., (1993) Questioning. London: Routledge

Mercer, N. (1995) The Guided Construction of Knowledge: talk amongst teachers and learners. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Related resources

Developing learning through talk: research report
This report of the research project is available online at:
www.ex.ac.uk/~damyhill/talk 
 
Summaries of research

How classroom talk supports reading comprehension
This TRIPS digest emphasised the need to allow time for children to respond during interactive teaching – it found that only 10 per cent of pupils’ utterances were more than three words long.  Available at:
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/research/themes/speakandlisten/classroomtalk/

Resources

Developing effective teaching of speaking and listening:

http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/21178?uc=force_uj