English Developmental Continuum P–10 – Speaking & Listening
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Communicating orally (Ability to learn oral language): scaffolding learning from 1.75
Indicators of Progress
- Students ask clarifying questions to facilitate communication.
- Students visualise as they listen.
Teaching Strategies
During speaking and listening: Tuning in to ideas
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.
Literal and inferential comprehension
Students show what they know about the story by:
- retelling what they heard/remember about Little Obie and his Grandad’s trip in the wagon and talk about images they made. They can answer the questions, What have I been told? What do I know now? What pictures have I made in my mind about the story?
- inferring what they think the family might do next—this section of the story finishes with the rain falling around their cabin and the water rising. What might happen next? Why might that happen?