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
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Tell
Me (Children, Reading and Talk) with The Reading Environment
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Thimble
Press, 2011
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ISBN978-0903355-54-4
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The
separate American editions are available from
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All
contents are ©Aidan Chambers unless otherwise stated.
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