6 Tips For Improving Oracy

Helen Sharpe

Helen works at The Radclyffe School in Oldham as English AST and Lead Teacher for Literacy. She has worked tirelessly to build a culture of reading through regular assemblies and whole-school initiatives while trialling and sharing best practice in pedagogy. Helen is passionate about curriculum...
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How do we make our classrooms hubs of high-quality talk?

It was Aldous Huxley who said, "Language has made possible man's progress from animality to civilization" and reminds us all of the importance and centrality of language in human lives.

So why is student speak important?

Voice21 think that oracy should have the same status as numeracy and literacy in the curriculum.

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Vygotsky suggests that talk represents our

6 Tips For Improving Oracy

Helen Sharpe

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