Teaching Speaking and Listening: One Step at a Time, Revised Edition

by Ann Locke

Overview

This book offers a systematic yet flexible programme for teaching spoken language one step at a time. It targets the essential spoken language skills crucial for every child's educational development - Conversation; Listening; Narrative; Discussion -and provides auditing tools, checklists and guidance to help the non-specialist teacher to build language, literacy and communication skills.


This highly-accessible book, complete with online resources, supports differentiated teaching by providing simple methods for monitoring individual development and reviewing progress. The book includes practical, realistic teaching objectives and classroom procedures, advice on teaching methods and suggestions for activities.

This resource is specially designed to combine with other teaching programmes, making spoken language teaching manageable within existing resources - without specialist training. There are downloadable tools and links online, including a training pack to ensure that the whole school benefits from this tried-and-tested model.

Teachers, teaching assistants, literacy coordinators and SENCOs working in the early years and primary, and anyone working with children of any age with spoken language difficulties will find this resource invaluable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441114655
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/05/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Ann Locke works in the Department of Human Communications Sciences at the University of Sheffield.

Table of Contents

Introduction\How to Use This book\List of Resource and Website Materials\1. Why Spoken Language Matters\2. Learning and Teaching Spoken Language\3. Managing Language Teaching in the Classroom\4. Identifying the Issues and Building the Skills One Step at a Time\5. Getting Started\6. Conversation Skills\7. Listening Skills\8. Narrative Skills\9. Discussion Skills\10. Teaching Vocabulary\11. Managing the Programme on a Whole-School Basis\12. Training and Induction\Appendix 1: A summary of the development of language and communication from birth to 19 years\Appendix 2: Vocabulary checklist\Appendix 3: Sample auditing and planning sheets\References\Index