Tell Me: Children, Reading & Talk

2011, updated, revised, redesigned edition, combined with The Reading Environment

'In any group of children . . . we find that if they begin by sharing their most obvious observations they soon accumulate a body of understanding that reveals the heart of a text and its meaning(s) for them all. Even when quite complicated or abstract ideas are approached this way (through story images and talked-out interpretations) there is little that children cannot grasp. In this activity there is a balance to be found between respect for the rights of the individual as a reader and talker and the corporately composed reading of the group - the community text which is always more complex and insightful than one individual reading can ever be.'

Tell Me offers practical information under-pinned by clearly explained theory about book-talking in the classroom, explaining some of the processes and outlining the ground rules developed by experienced practitioners. From their experience has been formulated a Framework, 'a repertoire of questions that assist readers in speaking out their reading'.

One of the most widely read and successful, practically-based books available about literary education, Tell Me has been translated into nine languages. A separate edition prepared for the USA is published by Stenhouse Press.

Along with its companion volume THE READING ENVIRONMENT, Tell Me is a set text on many university and in-service courses for students, teachers and librarians.

New, combined, revised, updated and redesigned edition
Tell Me (Children, Reading and Talk) with The Reading Environment
Thimble Press, 2011
ISBN978-0903355-54-4
Available on line from www.thimblepress.co.uk
The separate American editions are available from
Stenhouse Publishers in USA, www.stenhouse.com
And in Canada from Pembroke, www.pembrokepublishers.com

All contents are ©Aidan Chambers unless otherwise stated.

 

 

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