Oracy In the Classroom   30/07/2017

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Create discussion guidelines:

• Always respect each other's ideas.
• Be prepared to change your mind.
• Come to a shared agreement.
• Clarify, challenge, summarize, and build on each other's ideas.
• Invite someone to contribute by asking a question.
• Show proof of listening.  (important as this shows respect)

We need to teach children the different roles in a conversation:

• instigator - starts the conversation
• builder - builds on and develops further other people's ideas
• challenger - provides an argument
• clarifier - makes things clear (like a commentator)
• prober - asks questions to go deeper
• summarises

Activities that encourage speech

• talking points: students need to say 'I agree or I disagree because ...
• ghost reading: students takes turns to read but decide how long they read for
• collective writing: after writing on a topic students collectively talk about it, each choosing how much they say

English

• A similarity between these texts is…
• A difference between these texts is…
• The author's choice of X shows…

History

• In this era…
• This artifact shows that…
• This source illustrates that…
• This source is biased because…
• This source is more reliable because…

Art

• I like this picture because…
• I prefer the work of X because…
• The composition of this piece shows that…
• The techniques I have noticed are…

Science

• The results show that…
• The conclusion I have drawn is…
• There is a correlation between ... and ....
• An anomaly I noticed is…
• I have observed...