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Oracy: Developing great listening

Learning to talk involves developing a pupil’s listening skills as well as spoken language. Attentive listening is a skill without which there can be a complete breakdown in communication in the classroom. As teachers we must explicitly model and teach this to pupils. Sinek says there are five types of listening. The minimum we should …

Oracy: Talk rules

In the 1990s, a study by SLANT outlined for talk to be productive and purposeful, children should be guided by a set of talk rules. If rules for talk are made explicit, visible and spoken (rather than implicit, invisible and unspoken), the talk time will be more productive: pupils are less likely to become off …