Unlocking Speaking and Listening in Every Child: Strategies, activities and resources to create good speakers and listeners

Unlocking Speaking and Listening in Every Child is a practical guide for teachers to help develop speaking and listening skills in children. It covers developing listening skills, speaking for a purpose, structuring group discussions, building self-esteem and social skills, word games, language play, and assessing speaking and listening. It includes sections on talking about talk, speaking for a range of practical purposes, learning to listen, structuring speaking and listening sessions, types of talk, meeting individual needs, using speaking and listening to support reading and writing, and speaking and listening through the curriculum.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 220 pages
Publication date: 01 January 2019
Publisher: Ransom Publishing

Unlocking speaking and listening skills is essential for a child's literacy and communication development. Good communication enhances performance, is rewarding for the individual, and builds self-esteem. Speaking and listening is now a higher priority in teaching, but many teachers find it challenging. This book, the fourth in Ransom's practical series of handbooks for teachers, provides a focused and clear approach to the subject. Mary Hoppe offers structures that enable teachers to teach speaking and listening effectively and demonstrates how improved speaking and listening can benefit all subject areas. Children who speak and listen well are better all-round learners. The book includes sections on developing listening skills, speaking for a purpose, structuring group discussions, building self-esteem and social skills, word games, language play, and assessing speaking and listening. Topics include talking about talk, spoken texts, speaking for a range of practical purposes, learning to listen, evaluating and responding, structuring speaking and listening sessions, types of talk, discussing and persuading, informing, explaining, and instructing, and recounting, imagining, and retelling. Meeting individual needs, using speaking and listening to support reading and writing, and speaking and listening through the curriculum are also covered. Unlocking Speaking and Listening in Every Child brings together the best of teacher's resources to help develop speaking and listening for children in a practical and interesting way. Written by expert Mary Ho.

Weight: 596g
Dimension: 246 x 188 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781841671383