Teaching Speaking and Listening in the Primary School

Elizabeth Grugeon, Lorraine Hubbard, Carol Smith, Lyn Dawes

• Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781843122555
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135396701
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Speaking and listening, along with reading and writing, are essential components of literacy and learning development within the National Primary Strategy. This best-selling introductory text updates teachers on national developments and best practice in speaking and listening in the classroom through:

• speaking and listening issues: a review
• story-telling and drama
• oral and popular culture and media
• planning for talk across the curriculum
• the impact of ICT: software, email, internet, computer games.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Speaking and Listening: An Overview
• 2 Talk in the Early Years
• 3 Listening to Children’s Talk: Oral Language on the Playground and in the Classroom
• 4 Developing Articulate Readers
• 5 Developing Children’s Oral Skills at Key Stage 2
• 6 Speaking, Listening and Thinking with Computers
• 7 Developing Children’s Oral Skills through Drama
• 8 Monitoring and Assessing Speaking and Listening in the Classroom
• Epilogue
• References
• Children’s Literature
• Index