Some practical strategies
- Give pupils opportunities to use the tape recorder:
- To record work as an alternative to writing
- For messages or instructions
- As a notebook
- To ‘redraft’ their talk
- Give pupils time to explore and plan their work together before starting:
- What do we already know?
- What do we want to find out?
- How shall we go about it?
- Collect examples of ‘superb statements’ for a wall display
- Offer pupils ‘real audiences’ within and beyond the classroom, e.g. tell stories to younger children, explain to parents the work in technology, instruct a newcomer about how to use the computer
- Use groups or paired oral activities to support reading and writing – collaborative writing, getting information from text books etc
- Set a ‘talk homework’ – something to listen to or record, some questions to ask a relative, a picture to discuss with someone else
- Assign pupils a response partner in the classroom
- Allow ‘time out’ – two or three minutes for pupils to think or articulate their thoughts
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