This is how it works:

We use a variety of teaching and learning approaches to teach oracy skills across the curriculum, including:

• Our Oracy Progression Document outlines how oracy skills will be introduced and developed throughout the school.
• We use a range of groupings to support talk, this can range from practising or rehearsing ideas to oneself before sharing these with a partner or in a trio before entering a group discussion.  Each grouping gives the children opportunities to develop and practise elements from each strand.
• A.B.C. hand gestures
• A.B.C language stems
• Each class begins the year by setting their Discussion Guidelines, which outlines the etiquette and expectations for talk.
• Say it again, better
• Vocabulary emphasis
• We encourage children to speak/answer in full sentences.
• We utilise lots of call & repeat; my turn, your turn to practise speaking & listening.
• Providing opportunities for drama and roleplay.
• Providing opportunities for children to develop their listening skills through conversation.
• Promoting small group and class discussions on specific topics/areas of the curriculum.
• Providing opportunities to speak in front of a larger audience, for example during an assembly.
• Giving the children the opportunity to speak to unfamiliar people with a real purpose.
• Allowing the children to participate in ‘show and tell’ sessions.
• Playing a range of games with the children to encourage effective use of oracy skills.
• Encouraging the children to talk for a specific purpose, e.g. to persuade or to entertain.
• Encouraging children to work in groups to collaboratively solve a problem.