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Key steps involved in planning and performing a Text Talk lesson:

-First, the teacher needs to select a book to read aloud to the class that is appropriate. The book needs to have some intellectually challenging vocabulary that children can identify and comprehend.

- Next, the teacher beings reading the story to the children.

-The teacher should stop at important points in the story to pose questions. The questions should be directly related to key events in the story and should help elicit understanding.

-Teachers should pose secondary questions in response to children’s answers to initial questions that direct them towards comprehension and constructing meaning.

-The teacher should wait to show the pictures until after the students have responded to the questions, so that they do not depend on the pictures for information.

Some important components to Text Talk that are important for teachers to understand are:

-Children tend to ignore linguistic content and gain information about the story directly from the pictures in the book. The goal of TextTalk 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. Thus, we want to wait to show students the pictures until after they have responded to questions and have constructed meaning based on the linguistic content.

-Also, teachers must be aware of the danger of background knowledge. Students often respond to questions about a story based on their background knowledge alone. Teachers must help children learn respond to questions based on information directly from the story; not just their prior knowledge.

-Teachers should use reading aloud as an opportunity to introduce and teach new vocabulary words. Teachers should bring to mind a new word from a story and explain its meaning to the kids. Kids must repeat the word out loud to gain phonological representation of the word. Children must think about and use the new word after initial instruction so it can become part of their vocabulary.

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