Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Creating discourse and mind : how talk, text, and meaning evolve -- Texts that talk : the special and peculiar nature of classroom discourse and the crediting of sources -- Talk as text : gender and children's conversational interaction -- Teenage talk : a London-based chat and discussion compared -- Dinner talk : gaining cultural membership in modern literate societies -- Doing school at home : Mexican immigrant families interpret texts and instructional agendas -- Using literature discussions to reason through real-life dilemmas : a journey taken by one teacher and her fourth-grade students -- How teachers can support productive classroom talk : move the thinking to the students -- The effects of an instructional conversation on English language learners' concepts of friendship and story comprehension -- The role of dialogue in reciprocal teaching and naturalistic tutoring -- Conjunction use in school children's oral language and reading -- Transformative communication in project science learning discourse -- Remaking the world through talk and text : what we should learn from how engineers use language to design -- The use of dialogue in drama : reading dialogue and observing performance -- Poetry reading and group discussion in elementary school -- Reflective talk from poetic text -- The Talmud teaches how to speak about beliefs and deeds -- Children's collaborative interpretations of artworks : the challenge of writing visual texts within the texts of their lives -- Changing musical perception through reflective conversation -- Postscript : on the interaction of speech and writing in classroom discourse.