Speaking and ListeningSpeaking and Listening

Aims of the sessionAims of the session

• To discuss the objectives in the new speaking and listening resources

• To identify opportunities for planning for speaking and listening

• To examine the features of speaking and listening

• To look at some of the classroom activities for practising speaking and listening

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Activity:Activity:

• What are the differences between spoken and written language?

What is distinctive about speaking and What is distinctive about speaking and listening?listening?• Non-verbal communication is integral to talk;

children need to be taught how to recognise how their speaking is being received and to know how to adjust accordingly.

• Children need to learn how to be a receptive and sensitive listener;

• Speakers employ movement, gesture, eye contact, tone and volume to convey meaning. Children need to be taught which are appropriate in different contexts.

What is distinctive about speaking and What is distinctive about speaking and listening?listening?

Speakers: • question • disagree with• extend • qualify each other’s utterances• finish each other’s comments• compete to be dominant• agree• explore ideas

What is being What is being talked about?talked about?

Activity/subject content/specific

vocabulary

Who is talking?Who is talking?Social

interaction/roles in group work/formal/informal

language

What kind of talk?What kind of talk?

Conversation/story/

retelling/dialogue/

discussion –

group/pairs

Teaching Objectives and ActivitiesTeaching Objectives and Activities

• The new materials are all related to the four aspects of speaking and listening in the National Curriculum:

- Speaking:Speaking: being able to speak clearly and to develop and sustain ideas in talk;

- Listening:Listening: developing active listening strategies and critical skills of analysis;

- Group discussion and interaction:Group discussion and interaction: taking different roles in groups, making a range of contributions and working collaboratively;

- DramaDrama: improvising and working in role, scripting and performing, responding to performances.

The New MaterialsThe New Materials• A set of objectives for speaking and Listening from

Year 1 to Year 6;• Examples of teaching sequences for some of the

objectives; (more on standards site);• A video illustrating the link between speaking and

listening and the teaching sequences;• A handbook with advice about the principles behind

the materials;• Leaflets on the four aspects of speaking and

listening;• A poster focusing on progression across Years 1-6

Activity:Activity:

• Look at the objectives for your year group;• Discuss opportunities that exist both in

literacy and across the curriculum to include these objectives;

• Feedback about one example.

Video:Video:

Year 1 Term 1 Speaking:

To describe incidents or tell stories from their own experience, in an audible voice;

Linked to NLS T5 and T9

Talk for Writing

Planning for speaking and Listening - Planning for speaking and Listening - how do you do this?how do you do this?

• Shared work• Sentence and word level• Talk for writing• Independent activities• Guided sessions• Plenary• Cross curricular opportunities

Making it work in the classroom - Making it work in the classroom - SpeakingSpeaking

• Talk Partners• Debates• Predicaments and Problems• Photos and Paintings• Glove Puppets and Shadow Theatre• Just a MinuteJust a Minute• Radio Broadcast

Making it work in the classroom -Making it work in the classroom -ListeningListening

• Babble gabble• Barrier games• Word tennis• Draw a story• Telephone conversations• Ways to listenWays to listen• All change!

Making it work in the classroom -Making it work in the classroom -Group discussion and interactionGroup discussion and interaction

• Think-Pair-Share• Snowballing• Envoys• JigsawJigsaw• Statements game• Rainbowing• Information gap

Making it work in the classroom -Making it work in the classroom -DramaDrama

• Freeze framesFreeze frames• Conscience alley• Thought tracking• Hot seating• Forum theatre• Meetings• Paired improvisation• Flashbacks and flash forwards

Activity - Listening techniques jigsawActivity - Listening techniques jigsaw

• Number participants on each table 1, 2, 3 or 4• Group into same numbers• ‘1s’ read and discuss ‘Babble gabble’• ‘2s’ read and discuss ‘Draw a Story’• ‘3s’ read and discuss ‘Word tennis’• ‘4s’ read and discuss ‘Telephone conversations’• Re-group and feedback what each technique

involves.

ReflectionReflection

• In the light of this training – How might you develop these aspects in

your classroom?– Identify the next steps

ResourcesResources

www.lancsngfl.ac.uk www.lancsngfl.ac.uk - National Strategies - Literacy - Speaking and Listening