Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Prologue to the Second Edition ix
5. Introduction to First Edition xvii
6. Notes on Transcriptions of Dialogue Extracts xxiii
7. 1. The Children and Their Families 1
8. 2. Learning to Talk: The Pattern of Development 20
9. 3. Learning to Talk: The Construction of Language 38
10. 4. Talking to Learn 59
11. 5. From Home to School 74
12. 6. Helping Children to Make Knowledge Their Own 115
13. 7. Differences Between Children in Language and Learning 139
14. 8. The Centrality of Literacy 166
15. 9. The Children’s Achievement at Age 10 184
16. 10. The Sense of Story 213
17. 11. A Functional Theory of Language Development 236
18. 12. Toward Dialogue in the Classroom 260
19. 13. The Interdependence of Practice and Theory 278
20. Epilogue: Making Meaning Together 306
21. Appendix 1: The Bristol Language Development Scale 314
22. References 318
23. Index 329