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Teaching Speaking & Listening
in the Primary School

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Teaching Speaking & Listening
in the Primary School
Third Edition

Elizabeth Grugeon, Lyn Dawes, Carol Smith and Lorraine Hubbard

David Fulton Publishers Ltd The Chiswick Centre, 414 Chiswick High Road, London W4 5TF www.fultonpublishers.co.uk Firstpublished in Great Britain in 2000 by David Fulton Publishers Second edition published 2003 This edition published 2005 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Note: The right of the individual contributors to be identified as the authors of their work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. David Fulton Publishers is a division of Granada Learning Limited, part ofITV plc. Copyright © Elizabeth Grugeon, Lyn Dawes, Carol Smith and Lorraine Hubbard 2005 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 1 84312 255 3 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.

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Contents

About the Authors Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Speaking and Listening: An Overview 2 Talk in the Early Years

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3 Listening to Children’s Talk: Oral Language on the Playground and in the Classroom55 4 Developing Articulate Readers 5 Developing Children’s Oral Skills at Key Stage 2 6 Speaking, Listening and Thinking with Computers 7 Developing Children’s Oral Skills through Drama 8 Monitoring and Assessing Speaking and Listening in the Classroom Epilogue References Children’s Literature Index 73 84 103 121 131 151 160 166 168

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About the Authors

Lyn Dawes is currently teachingYear 5 at Middleton Combined School, Milton Keynes. She has published widely in the field of speaking and listening in the primary school and was previously involved with initial teacher education at De Montfort University, Bedford, and the Open University. She has also worked as Education Officer for the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA). Elizabeth Grugeon is SeniorLecturer in English in Primary Education at De Montfort University, Bedford. She has led a research team with Lyn Dawes, Inside and Outside the Classroom: children’s language development, 5–8, and has a special interest in children’s literature and children’s oral culture. She is co-author (with Paul Gardner) of The Art of Storytelling for Teachers and Pupils (David Fulton Publishers). LorraineHubbard was a primary school teacher in London and Devon. She was a researcher on the Plymouth Early Years Language Project. She is currently Senior Lecturer in English in Primary Education at De Montfort University, Bedford, with an interest in literacy in the European context. Carol Smith has been a primary teacher and English coordinator for many years. She is currently a senior literacy consultantworking for Milton Keynes Council. Carol is also a visiting lecturer to the University of Hertfordshire and De Montfort University, Bedford. Sandra Birrell has recently completed a Primary BEd at De Montfort University, Bedford, specialising in English and D&T. This included five placements in schools in Bedfordshire. She was formerly a Registered General Nurse for ten years. She is now an NQT...