English Developmental Continuum P–10 – Speaking & Listening
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Communicating orally (Ability to learn oral language): scaffolding learning from 0.5
Indicators of Progress
- Students sequence logically and coherently a small number of ideas, such as the main events or ideas in recounting stories or personal experiences.
- Students learn how to listen strategically in individual interactions and group situations, for example, they remember what they have heard and do not interrupt speakers.
- Students use actions to speak and listen in meaningful ways to comprehend others and to interact during communication.
- Students learn to listen long enough to be able to follow very simple instructions, to follow a story that has accompanying pictures, to receive feedback from others, to engage in a conversation, and to learn new ideas, new vocabulary and new ways of talking about ideas.
- Students learn the values and advantages of listening carefully.
- Students develop strategies to guide their speaking activity. For example, when asked to recount an experience, they gather and name some of the items they will talk about and make a picture in their mind of what they might say.
- Students engage in conversation using their own experiences to identify and appropriately respond to what their peers say.
Teaching Strategies
Before speaking and listening: Getting your knowledge ready
The learning and teaching approach for speaking and listening is illustrated for students responding to the story The Little Red Hen.
Students organise themselves as listeners and speakers
Students are shown the cover of The Little Red Hen and are told they are going to listen to a story. They are asked What will you do as you listen to the story?
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What will you be doing? |
I will sit quietly. I will listen to what you say. |
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How will you feel while you are listening? |
I will feel comfortable, relax my body. |
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What might your face say as you listen to the story? |
I will smile, look happy when the story makes me laugh. |
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What might you think as you listen to the story? |
I will listen carefully. I won’t talk. |
During speaking and listening: Tuning in to ideas
The learning and teaching approach for speaking and listening is illustrated for students responding to the story The Little Red Hen.
Retell through actions
Students act out the events that have happened so far:
- What did the cat do? Show me what the little red hen did.