Book Talk and Beyond

Children and Teachers Respond to Literature

Nancy L. Roser and Miriam G. Martinez, editors

The teachers depicted in this book not only make literature in classrooms available, they make it unavoidable. They initiate literature discussion groups, book clubs, and literature circles—small groups of students who read a common text and come together to talk about it.

Writers in this volume emphasize the importance of children observing the way adults think and learn. Teachers need to be a part of classroom literature discussion groups so they can “shoot literary arrows” that guide students toward intertextual links and more literary ways of responding to books.

Read and enjoy the conversations in this book. Talk with your colleagues about the ideas represented here. Invite your students into conversations about books and what they mean—the same way these writers do for us.

An IRA Book Club selection, June 1995

© 1995 | 260 pp. | ISBN 0-87207-129-4

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