English Developmental Continuum P–10 – Speaking & Listening
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Conventions of language: scaffolding learning from 1.5
Indicators of Progress
- Students comprehend and use well-formed direct voice sentences with adjectives and adverbs.
- Students comprehend and use questions and imperative forms correctly to convey a directive/command for example, stop, be quiet.
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 serial story Little Obie and the Flood written by Martin Waddell and published by Walker Books Ltd, London in 1991.
Plan to make a story more interesting
Students list the nouns they will use as they talk about the story. For each noun, they will identify and list adjectives that could be used:
|
Noun |
Adjective |
|
storm |
terrible |
|
shirts |
yellow |
|
rain |
heavy |