1st Edition
Creating a Speaking and Listening Classroom Integrating Talk for Learning at Key Stage 2
By Lyn Dawes
Copyright 2011
96 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
96 Pages
by
Routledge
96 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Providing children with opportunities to talk about their learning enables teachers to hear what children are thinking. Talking with one another allows children to question, elaborate, and reflect on a range of ideas. Classroom talk can be motivating and involving, and helps children to think and learn. And yet it is difficult to organise such talk in a classroom. Children unaware of the... Read more
Contents Introduction: Talk for Learning Chapter 1. Talk toolkits of teachers and children Chapter 2. On the carpet Chapter 3. Ground rules for exploratory talk Chapter 4. Speaking and Listening for Reading and Writing Chapter 5. Talk for learning across the curriculum Chapter 6. Talk about opinions Chapter 7. Decision learning Chapter 8. Creating a Speaking and Listening Classroom Further Reading
Biography
Lyn Dawes is a leading authority on speaking and listening in the primary classroom. A former primary school teacher, Lyn is currently Science Education lecturer at the University of Northampton. She is author of The Essential Speaking and Listening , also published by Routledge.
