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This book will challenge you to think deeply about what you can do integrate oracy into your practice. Rich with ideas, advice and strategies, Transform Teaching and Learning through Talk: The Oracy Imperative will quickly become your go-to-guide to get talking in class!
List of contents
Foreword
Beccy Earnshaw, Director, Voice 21
Introduction
1. It's Time to Take Speaking Seriously
2. Know What Makes Good Talk
3. Deconstruct and Teach Discussion
4. Remember You Can't Talk about Nothing
5. Structure Oracy
6. Elevate the Quality of Talk
7. Cultivate Vocabulary
8. Teach Listening, Too
9. Embrace Oracy for your Quiet Students
10. Talk about Talk
11. Create Authentic Contexts
12. Develop Oracy through Debate
13. Make Meaningful use of Assessment
About the Authors
Index
About the author
Amy Gaunt and Alice Stott lead teaching and learning at Voice 21, a charity dedicated to raising the status of oracy in schools across the UK and worldwide. Over the last two years they have supported thousands of teachers and hundreds of schools across the UK to embrace oracy in their pedagogy and curriculum. Their practice has been shaped by the innovative approaches to oracy developed at School 21, a pioneering 4-18 state school in Stratford, East London.
Summary
This book will challenge you to think deeply about what you can do integrate oracy into your practice. Rich with ideas, advice and strategies, Transform Teaching and Learning through Talk: The Oracy Imperative will quickly become your go-to-guide to get talking in class!
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‘Oracy’ might be an ugly word, but this book beautifully makes the case for why it matters so much. We know from personal experience and academic research that high quality, well-taught speaking and listening approaches can form the foundation of children’s wider achievement. Here is a compellingly comprehensive range of approaches and activities to give oracy the profile it needs to make a deep whole-school impact. For anyone interested in empowering children’s learning, this book is indispensable.
