Oracy Talking Points
Having recently attended one of Voice 21's Open Learn online courses, I decided to develop some Oracy Talking Points. The lovely Voice 21 presenter, Rachel Dove @Dove1R, mentioned how in one Primary school teachers decided to add Oracy Talking Points around the corridors, in the canteen and across classrooms for students to discuss open questions on general topics.
This got me thinking...
How can we adapt this concept for Secondary schools?
The aims of Oracy Talking Point posters would be to:
1. Develop our KS4 students' subject specific knowledge - aiding memorisation.
2. Enable non-subject specialists (including KS3 students) the opportunity to address universal concepts within these chosen set text quotes/statements.
How can this be done?
1. Choose quotes/statements from our set texts.
2. Provide a basic definition/explanation/summary for non-subject specialists to invite them into a conversation about the subject specific talking point (quote/statement).
Examples for English Literature include:
Further possibilities:
We can challenge our students by encouraging them to provide their alternative definitions/interpretations of the quote/statement's meaning(s).
We can challenge students to add a missing quote/statement to one of these slides as a form of retrieval.
We can add QR codes with links to a video clip of a related event for revision purposes.
We can minimise these slides into small cards for students to revise from. Or we could display these into an oracy corner in the classroom as an extension task.
The list of possibilities are endless.
Work is underway on the development of Oracy Talking Points across our school.
Will update you all accordingly.
Enjoy access to these PPT slides here.
