Transcript The Speaking and Listening Learning Environment

The Speaking and Listening
Learning Environment
Furniture
organised to facilitate
collaborative work in
pairs and small groups
Book Collection
This includes poetry to perform,
play scripts and multiple copies
of core texts
A listening area
•Tape recorder or CD player with headphones
•Cushions or appropriate seating for pairs or small groups
•Story tape or CDs and accompanying books, including
books
in different languages – both published and made by
staff,
parents and pupils
•Tapes made by the children of their own stories or
poems or
•ones they have chosen
•Collection of music CDs
•Story props
ICT
Classroom computer and headphones with:
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Talking books
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Space for small group work, both independent
and collaborative
Use of IWB for discussion activities and pupil
presentations
Online access to video clips to support curriculum
discussions
Webcams for online discussions and to record speaking
Multimedia and presentation software with facility to
include children’s voice-overs and narrations
Microphones for pupils to use
A collection of props for story telling
Puppets, small world, and story boxes or sacks
Planned speaking
and listening
opportunities
and
flexible groupings
Interactive topic related displays/Learning walls
including activities, artefacts/objects, illustrations and key questions
to stimulate talk and enquiries. Also, pupils notes on flip chart paper
and sticky notes recording views and opinions, pupils’ own work and
any scaffolding used to support speaking and listening in class, for
Example posters displaying ground rules for speaking and listening
Role play area
With a changing theme linked to
class topics, which provide
opportunities for collaborative
play and talk in role
Carpet area
To enable the whole
class to gather for
story time, circle time
and whole class
discussions and story time