Classroom dialogue means the ways that teachers and students explore and generate ideas and questions together. Dialogue isn’t straightforward talk, it’s where participants make their reasoning clear to each other – and most importantly, they build on and critique others’ ideas as well as their own. Teachers can support this with open-ended, thought-provoking questioning, while students get to take extended turns in group and whole class discussions. (Interested readers might like to see the ‘Dialogic Teaching’ booklet by Robin Alexander