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Editorial Comment .................................................................................. 3Margaret Zeegers

Conversations and Stories ....................................................................... 4Marion Meiers

Play and Write: An Early Literacy Approach ........................................ 6Leeanne Biordi and Nicole Gardner

Oral culture in the classroom .................................................................. 10Julie Perrin

Text Talk by Children ............................................................................... 11Linda Abbott

Ten things I know about teaching Speaking and Listening … ........... 12Duncan Dewar

Substantive Conversations – The importance of oracy in the classroom ............................................. 13Nikki Arnott

Oral language and The Little Yarra Steiner School .............................. 16Deborah Pepyat

Extending Children’s Vocabulary and Comprehension through Oral and Visual Literacy .......................................................................... 22Victoria Cochrane

Developing Confident Speakers ............................................................. 25Brad Beales

Switch onto Literature .............................................................................. 27Jodie Rowell, Jan Herold, Sarah Darcy and Jannine Nascimento

Going South with Sophie Scott: A journey into oral language ........... 31Nicole Tainsh

Linking Pedagogy: Scaffolding Literacy and First Steps ....................................................... 34Laurel Rodrigues and Bec Smith

Dolphin Tennis .......................................................................................... 37Stephen Cadusch

Postmodernity and oral language learning ........................................... 39Joel Batson

Supporting the oral literacy development of young ESL children .... 42Shuhuan Pang

Text, Twitter and Tweet: ‘There’s an app for that’ ....................................... 46 Sharon McDonough

Text Talk for Teachers .............................................................................. 47

EditorMargaret Zeegers

Associate EditorSharon McDonough

Reviews EditorBrad Beales

Front cover image:Karen Argus

Volume 19 Number 1 ~ February 2014

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