Elizabeth Stannard - Oracy resources ‘Teachers asking challenging questions—guiding pupils with oral feedback, prompting dialogue, and scaffolding productive ‘exploratory’ talk where appropriate—is an ideal way to share and develop effective learning.’ Mercer, N. & Dawes, L. (2008) The value of Exploratory Talk. In Mercer, N. & Hodgkinson, S. This year I have built on last year’s CPD oracy workshop that Moira Henderson and I ran exploring how to improve Oracy in the classroom and why it is important within literacy. I decided to adapt/ use as a starting point some of the resources we used in those workshops including ideas from Voice 21, to create a teacher planning kit for oracy in the classroom. My idea is to support improvements in the teaching of oracy with planning and assessment materials. The resources are: ➢ ➢ ➢ ➢ ➢
a planning chart laying out a range of skills that create successful oracy, a teacher flow chart to focus your planning of oracy skills an active listening poster to remind everyone of the skills needed a discussion poster with sentence starters an assessment grid that could be used by students or teachers to assess students oracy skills
To support your planning of Orcay skills some useful website and resources: Thinking skills planning: Third space learning’s webpage: Metacognition In The Classroom: A 7-Step Practical Approach To Primary Maths Teaching. https://thirdspacelearning.com/blog/7-steps-eef-metacognition-primary-classroommaths/#11-5-talk-promote-and-develop-metacognitive-talkhttps://www.teachthought.com/learning/what-is-blooms-taxonomy-a-definition-for-teachers/
An excellent resource is this pdf from Blooms taxonomy.org which has many ready made questions for your to use https://bloomstaxonomy.org/Blooms%20Taxonomy%20questions.pdf For example Remembering:
Questions: • What is…? • Can you select? • Where is…? • When did ____ happen? • Who were the main…? • Which one…? • Why did…? • How would you describe…? 252
