Talking Points: Discussion Activities in the Primary Classroom encourages andsupports classroom discussion on a range of topics, enabling children to develop the important life-skill of effective group communication. Children who can explain their own ideas and take account of the points of view and reasons of others are in the process of becoming truly educated. This book offers a straightforward way of teaching children discussion skills within the framework of a creative curriculum. The book provides an introduction on how to help children learn the skills of group discussion, offering six essential Talk Lessonsto use in the classroom, alongside suggestions on how teachers can plan theirlessons with a talk focus, set learning outcomes and create their own TalkingPoints to suit topics they are teaching. The main body of the book contains the Talking Points resources which are an excellent, tried and tested way of stimulating and supporting extended talk about a topic. The Talking Points in this book offer model for teachers to create further Talking Points for their own classes.
- ISBN: 978-0-415-61459-7
- Editorial: Routledge
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 144
- Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés