Talking and Listening – Activities for effective communication – Ages 5–7

Acquiring skills in talking and listening

Talking and listening forms an integral part of a student’s education. Our main means of communicatingwith the world is through speaking. Children of today generally spend hours being passively entertained by TV and computer games. Therefore, it is vital that during their time at school, students acquire skills in talking and listening and practise them in a variety of situations.

Obtaining these skills means not only do students learn to converse more freely, but hopefully they will gain confidence in speaking so that they can communicate more effectively, for example, in giving their own point of view, giving instructions, requesting information, giving a speech, discussing topics with peers, having conversations, talking about personal experiences and telling jokes.

Features:

• a comprehensive blackline master series, with an activity for every objective of the oral language curriculum strand units
• contemporary and fun activities that children will love
• each speaking and listening topic consists of one page of teachers notes and two pages of worksheets
• detailed teachers notes include activity objective, summary of activities, background information, list of things to prepare before the lesson, suggestions on how to teach the lesson, answers (where applicable) and additional/extension activities