Raise Your Voices

Teachers will find answers to many questions they may have about dialogic instruction in Raise Your Voices: Inquiry, Discussion, and Literacy Learning. Unlike many, perhaps most books on this topic, it is written “from the trenches” by experienced teachers. Dialogic instruction is increasingly challenged by prescriptive lesson plans that make little room for authentic questions and open-ended questions. Dialogic instruction is moreover particularly challenging for new teachers who may not always know how to interpret pauses in student responses to their questions: Did they ask a dumb question or a challenging thought-provoking one? Silence can be hard for a new inexperienced teacher to understand. Fortunately, they will find experienced guidance to such questions in Raise Your Voices: Inquiry, Discussion, and Literacy Learning. -- Martin Nystrand, Louise Durham Mead Professor of English Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison