Oracy is a subject currently undergoing examination, due to the emphasis placed upon it by the National Curriculum. With an emphasis on practice, but embracing the major theoretical issues involved, this book contains numerous exercises, examining the issues surrounding oracy in schools. It describes the many ways in which teachers can encourage pupils to talk, using picture books, media-based discussions and English as a second language.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cassell Education .

This book is aimed at the following children: primary school, secondary school .

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 1998 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

The author, Jackie Holderness, has worked in Primary education for over 20 years. She has written and acted as consultant on many books for children. The consultants for both these books are the Primary Education Department at the Westminster Institute for Education at Oxford Brookes University.

This book has the following chapters: Play and talk, Bill Laar; storytelling in the classroom, Mark Prentice; forging links between talking and writing, Margaret Armitage; philsophcal discussions with picture books, Karen Murris; using news events for media-based discussions, Jim Honeybone; oracy and children with special educational needs, Gordon Baddeley; talk across the curriculum, Barbara Lalljee; questioning, arguing and reasoning, Rosemary Stickland; a communication framework for ESOL learners, Jackie Holderness; keeping track of oracy, Diana Cinamon and Sally Elding; SACLA - Systematic and Co-operative Learning Approach to Group Work, Candice Savory; structuring talk with IT, Phil Moore.