English Developmental Continuum P-10 – Speaking & Listening
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Purposes of communication: scaffolding learning from 1.75
Indicators of Progress
- Students initiate and conclude conversations about familiar topics in everyday contexts.
- Students communicate for extended periods in a range of contexts with peers or adults.
- Students adjust their tone, volume and pace to emphasise meaning.
- Students communicate effectively in small groups, for example, they take steps to ensure equitable turn-taking, sharing ideas, and integrating the outcomes into an agreed consensus or group knowledge.
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.
Communicate effectively
Students choose a page from the book, identify the main ideas from the page and note these. For each of the ideas, they consider the tone, volume, pace and emphasis.