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BT's Education Programme has a website which provide teachers and parents with a range of easy to use activities to help children develop their speaking and listening abilities. There are free games, worksheets, debating exercises and interview practice for both primary and secondary. Visit www.bteducation.org
Communication Friendly Spaces toolkit The Basic Skills Agency has produced a Communication Friendly Spaces toolkit for practitioners. The toolkit provides a collection of research, case studies and comment for Early Years/Foundation Stage practitioners to interpret and use in their own context.
The toolkit includes:
case studies illustrating good practice from settings across England and Wales
a DVD, made in partnership with Teachers` TV
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an audit workbook to support staff teams with review and planning to improve their environments
A2120, age 3–7, £10.00 plus p&p. Order the toolkit online www.basic-skills.co.uk, call 0870 600 2400 or email basic-skills@prolog.uk.com.
(Basic Skills Agency newsletter February/March 2007)
First Steps Literacy - Speaking and Listening resources (2nd edition) are designed to help teachers develop students' speaking and listening skills. Courses are also available for teachers. For more information visit www.stepspd.com/uk
I CAN Talk Series - a series of papers from I CAN considering contemporary issues in children's development, including Language and Social Exclusion. More information
Making the most of speaking and listening in the primary school - Wendy Bloom.
This handbook, produced by Birmingham Advisory and Support Service, provides strategies for improving primary pupils' speaking and listening skills. It is based on the premise that while a good deal of speaking and listening leads into or comes from literacy work, oracy for its own sake is vital. The opening chapter gives a useful outline of how children develop early language skills from birth to three, not through structured teaching but as a result of interaction in the home. Key ingredients for developing fluency are identified, including having a purpose for communicating, the opportunity to play with language, being part of a family or community of talkers and having good models to imitate. It also proposes questions that primary teachers should ask themselves as a result: which of these factors do you consider to be most important and which are provided for well in your classroom? There follow examples of good practice in speaking and listening from the primary classroom, and suggested activities to help pupils to distinguish between the conventions of written texts and spoken language. Cost £11.
Contact Birmingham Advisory and Support Service on 0121 303 8081 or email bass.publications@birmingham.gov.uk
Teaching Speaking and Listening in the Primary School - Elizabeth Grugeon et al, published by David Fulton. This includes up-to-date research, good practical activites and a useful section on monitoring and assessment.
The Story Spinner is a collection of 42 stories told on film, by veteran storyteller Phil McDermott and created especially for use in primary schools. There are 7 DVDs in each box set, with 6 stories for each year, from reception to Year 6 - creating a unique resource for the entire school. Each story has been carefully selected to fit the Renewed Framework, offering all the benefits of live storytelling, for any classroom, any time. For more information visit www.thestoryspinner.co.uk
Speaking, listening and learning: working with children in key stages 1 and 2.
Resource pack issued in 2004 to support staff in revising their approach to speaking and listening by
providing suggestions for explicit professional development.
Available to download Teachernet.
The Basic Skills Agency have put together a pack that aims to help encourage parents and carers to develop children's language skills.Towards dialogic teaching: rethinking classroom talk, Professor Robin Alexander. Booklet for teachers outlining five principles for developing talk in the classroom. According to Professor Alexander's approach, it should be collective, reciprocal, cumulative, supportive and purposeful. Talk to Me!
Contact: Professor Robin Alexander, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2BX.
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British Library Language and Literature website which allows you to explore literary treasures, everyday ephemera, and the complex history of the English language, with unique texts from the British Library collection. Includes information on local dialects and accents, and dictionaries and meanings of words. www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/index.html
BT Education BT has set up a website to provide teachers and parents with a range of easy to use activities to help children develop their speaking and listening abilities. There are free games, worksheets, debating exercises and interview practice for both primary and secondary. Visit www.bteducation.org/Confidence in Communication: toolkit and training programme, developed by the English Secondary Students Association (ESSA), the toolkit is aimed at increasing students' communication skills, particularly verbally. It includes modules on active listening, talking to authority, mediation, and presentation skills. ESSA also offers training for students. For further information contact Helen Trivers: Helen.trivers@studentvoice.co.uk, visit www.studentvoice.co.uk or call 0207 022 1910.
Debating in schools
- an online resource produced by Learning and Teaching Scotland and the English-Speaking Union, Scotland, to encourage young people and teachers to engage with debating. Visit www.ltscotland.org.uk/debatinginschools
I CAN Talk Series - a series of papers from I CAN considering contemporary issues in children's development, including Language and Social Exclusion. More information
Meaning to talk. A series of items aimed at supporting good practices within speaking and listening. Three items in the series. A booklet for teachers, to support teachers running a parent's evening on the importance of talk with practical ideas, using active speaking and listening techniques, to engage and enthuse carers and parents. Costs £2. A Good practice guide detailing case studies from schools where the transition from year 7 to 8 has been improved with a focus on oracy. Costs £5. A parents and carers leaflet, designed to complement the teachers booklet, it is suitable for distributing to carers and parents. Costs £1.
To order any item in the series visit www.basic-skills.co.uk/resources
Paul's Story: Using speaking and listening to teach citizenship and literacy at Key Stage 3 - a resource to help teach citizenship and strengthen speaking and listening skills, following the story of Paul who gets into trouble because of his graffiti. To order the item visit www.basic-skills.co.uk/resources/
SpeakersBank is part of the Speakers Trust charity and provides training opportunities for public speaking and other communication skills in secondary schools. They also run the "Speak Out" challenge. For more information visit www.speakersbank.co.uk
Talk and Work. A series of 4 leaflets and a DVD to help support young people's communication skills as they enter the workplace. It features young people talking about the speaking and listening skills needed as well as comments from employers and tutors. To order visit www.basic-skills.co.uk/resources/
Talking rights: taking responsibility. A NATE publication bringing together oral activities for English and Citizenship, designed to help teachers meet the attainment needs of the English speaking and listening curriculum for Key Stages 3 and 4. Cost £13.
Contact: NATE, 50 Broadfield Road, Sheffield S8 0XJ. Tel: 0114 255 5419.
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British Library Language and Literature website which allows you to explore literary treasures, everyday ephemera, and the complex history of the English language, with unique texts from the British Library collection. Includes information on local dialects and accents, and dictionaries and meanings of words. www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/index.html
Speaking and Listening for Adult Learners. A course from The English Speaking Board for oral communication either in a vocational/professional context or in a
social/personal situation. For syllabus information see
www.esbuk.org.uk/slal.htm
Developing oral communication and productive thinking skills in HM Prisons, 2006. This report examines how educators and psychologists seek to foster positive thinking, learning and behaviour change in prisons. Part A focuses on the English Speaking Board’s oral communication courses. Published by The School of Education Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University. www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls
British Council has a range of resources for teaching English on their website including speaking activities.
www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/speaktry/speaking_activities.shtml
Dumbstruck! Using drama to develop the oracy skills of young people in custody is a resource based on a project that used drama to develop young offenders’ oracy skills. The importance of speaking and listening skills in literacy work is outlined as well as information about how the project was run, the impact it had and the lessons that were learned. It contains suggestions on how you can go about doing something similar. A CD-ROM is also included with a powerful story of how the project impacted on young people. Visit http://archive.basic-skills.co.uk/resources
Social Exclusion: the role of speech, language and communication in supporting social inclusion - a series of articles on this topic are available from I CAN following their conference in November 2007. The articles are written by contributors to the conference and are a mix of theory and research as well as practical ideas. Visit www.ican.org.uk
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