We can support students to take turns, and to invite others to participate – these are important oracy skills.
Provide prompts such as these that students can use in group or whole-class dialogue:
What do you think, Tyrese?
Do you think the same or something different, Mina?
I’d like to add to that point.
I want to go back to what Harriet said earlier…
Do you agree or disagree with me, Dylan?
A detailed description including building, helping, sharing and working together
Pupils feel that P4C helps them with everything from relationships to confidence to staying calm
How one teacher helped her class go deeper in their P4C enquiry
Providing talk prompts to students can increase the quality of partner talk
Ensure consistency and impact for high-quality pupil dialogue.
I strongly recommend providing Talk Prompts to help pupils formulate high quality spoken sentences and then bring powerful, formal phrases into their writing.
When using random selection in whole class learning, if a child doesn’t respond, there are several options.
I’ve noticed it’s useful to provide Pupil Talk Prompts that enable them to ask for thinking time or help.
A great way to start the day in Early Years - developing early language and reasoning as well as engaging families in their child’s learning.
Pupils immediately speaking in more powerful, articulate sentences as a result of a really simple technique.
Using prompt cards to raise the level of spoken language as well as written language.
