Overview

Combining research with real-life classroom examples, this book demonstrates how high-level conversations centered on fiction and nonfiction can promote student understanding and help them meet and exceed a spectrum of standards. The authors demonstrate how to use literary conversations in small, heterogeneous groups to address multiple expectations within classrooms, such as close reading, vocabulary, background knowledge, literal and inferential comprehension, and responses to multimodal interpretation, nonfiction text features, and graphic organizers. The text includes the theoretical why, and the very practical how-to, to help teachers (grades 3–8) successfully implement serious, sustained student-group conversations about their reading. The recommendations for heterogeneous groups, rather than groups based on book selection or reading ability, will support all students—struggling readers and those reading at or above grade level.

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""Barone and Barone's book offers important starting points for teachers to deepen literary conversations in the classroom. They write, ""Trust your students to respond to the challenge"" (p. 130). We agree. Students are ready for conversations!"" -- Teachers College Record

Author Information

Diane Barone is a foundation professor of literacy studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, past president of the board of the International Literacy Association, and former editor of The Reading Teacher. Rebecca Barone is a GATE specialist and was formerly a learning strategist and 5th-grade teacher in the Clark County School District, Nevada.

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