The Essential Speaking and Listening

✍ Scribed by Lyn Dawes

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 160
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Talk is the medium through which children learn; and yet children may not realise why their contributions to classroom talk are so important. This book provides teachers with resources for developing children's understanding of speaking and listening, and their skills in using talk for learning. The Essential Speaking and Listening will: help children to become more aware of how talk is valuable for learning raise their awareness of how and why to listen attentively and to speak with confidence encourage dialogue and promote effective group discussion integrate speaking and listening into all curriculum areas help every child make the most of learning opportunities in whole class and group work contexts The inclusive and accessible activities are designed to increase children's engagement and motivation and help raise their achievement. Children will be guided to make the links between speaking, listening, thinking and learning and through the activities they will also be learning important skills for future life. Teachers, education students and teacher educators will find a tried-and-tested approach that makes a difference to children's understanding of talk and how to use it to learn.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction: Speaking and listening for thinking and learning......Page 8
CHAPTER 1 Class talk skills: Raising children’s awareness of the importance of talk for learning......Page 17
CHAPTER 2 Talking Points: A strategy for encouraging dialogue between children and in whole-class sessions......Page 39
CHAPTER 3 Listening: Helping children to understand how and why they should become active listeners......Page 48
CHAPTER 4 Dialogic teaching: Orchestrating effective dialogue in whole-class sessions......Page 68
CHAPTER 5 Group work: Ensuring that all children collaborate in educationally effective group work......Page 85
CHAPTER 6 Speaking: Teaching children how to articulate their ideas......Page 125
CHAPTER 7 Assessment: A straightforward assessment format for recording experience and progress......Page 148
CHAPTER 8 Summary: Teaching speaking and listening enables the child to make the most of their education......Page 151
Further reading......Page 155
Index......Page 158