Key Concepts
- The goal is to enhance young children’s language and comprehension abilities through in depth and extensive experiences listening to and talking about stories read to them.
- Challenging content can be presenting to children through reading aloud
- Important to talk about the ideas in the book
- Children often rely on pictures for constructing meaning for the story
- Background Knowledge is very important in understanding a text, children will often respond based on this
- Choose the vocab work and talk about it, children must understand how it is used in the book to begin using in regularly.
- Enhancing children’s comprehension and language capabilities is essential for promoting literacy growth
- Pictures can draw attention away from processing the linguistic content in a text
Steps in Planning a Text Talk Lesson
- Select a text
- Develop questions
- Try them out
*Get children to think about what going on in the story
* Give them opportunities to reflect
*Focus discussion on major story ideas
*Contrast ideas at the end of the story
*Involve the children in discussion while reading the story
* Pictures must be shown after, so the child can imagine the story first
*Select a book that is intellectually challenging
*Repeat and rephrase what the children say
*Allow time for follow up questions
*Make sure to show pictures after the child has had time to respond
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Brooke,
I thought you did a great job listing the key concepts, planning techniques, and overall important facts from the article. After reading your response, it is clear that you have a solid understanding of the article and the Text Talk technique.
Comment by bridgesac — January 29, 2010 @ 10:36 pm |
I really liked the way you laid out your response to the Text Talk article. It was very easy to read and showed that you have a clear understanding of what is involved in a Text Talk lesson. I liked that used bullet points and brief descriptions to make the main points of the article. Someone who had not read the artcile could read this and still have a clear understanding of the technique involved in Text Talk lessons.
Comment by deannalyons — February 1, 2010 @ 8:30 pm |
Great discussion Brooke. Please note the following:
Please be careful with your language. In the sentence “Challenging content can be presenting to children through reading aloud” you should have said “Challenging content can be PRESENTED to children through reading aloud”
In the sentence “Choose the vocab work and talk about it, children must understand how it is used in the book to begin using in regularly.” Did you mean “word” for “work”? Also did you mean “it” for “in”?
~Dr. Ari
Comment by re3030 — February 21, 2010 @ 7:33 pm |
Brooke, your summary of how to do a Text Talk has been very helpful! I’m sure I will be going back to your page in order to remember what types of questions to ask students. That part was most helpful. Good job!
Carley
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