Dialogic Teaching

Mercer, N. & Hodgkinson, S. (2008) Exploring Talk in School LONDON; Sage Publications

'Dialogic Teaching'
3 main areas

- organising interaction
whole class,
collaboration,
collective groups,
one to one (teacher),
one to one (pair)

- Teaching Talk
rote (repetition),
Recitiation (cue questions, clues),
Instruction, exposition (telling them what to do)

- Learning Talk
oral expression and interaction of the child
various different abilities
listening, being receptive
giving other time
thinking about what they hear

'A Voice For Life'

Hendy, L. (2005) 'A Voice For Life' Primary English Magazine (June 2005)

More of a focus on strategies for promoting good use of voice
- expresssion
- creating interest
- pauses
- pitch and tone
- speaking for an audience

Writing As People; Voice, Poetry and the Special Needs Student

Blake, B. E. & Kuhn, S. (1997) 'Writing As People; Voice, Poetry and the Special Needs Student' EDRS; Scottsdale (US)

Good for establishing ideas and linking to literacy through reality. Good case studies of special needs.

ABSTRACT:
'Poetry is a powerful avenue in which students can learn to express their voices and 'write like people'. In the special needs classroom, where students specifically have problems with narrative structure... developing voice through poetry becomes especially crucial.'



POETRY
'poetry, as a special way of knowing can help students to learn about [their] feeling selves, [to] learn how to give audience to others and become members of a culture, to ultimately learn how to use words in the company of others, to reconstruct reality' (Blake, 1990)


'it is precisely because there are fewer or 'no' rules for creative expression, that the structure seems less inhibitive, affording students genuine opportunities to 'control' or to 'own' what they write.'


'because we have not traditionally listened to the voices of special needs students, poetry as a way of knowing and learning affords these students even greater opportunities to teach us about who they are.'