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Teachers’ Activity Pack What is the Hello campaign? No Pens Day Wednesday 28 September 2011 Hello is the 2011 national year of communication – a campaign to increase understanding of how important it is for all children and young people to develop good communication skills. It’s estimated that over a million children have some form of speech, language and communication need that requires them to have extra help to communicate. This can affect them severely and for life. Hello is helping to make children’s communication a priority in homes and schools across the country by providing information on typical communication development, how to spot if children are struggling and where to go for help and support. Visit www.hello.org.uk to find out more about the campaign and to sign up for regular updates. ‘Where inspectors saw links between oral language, reading and writing in lessons with secondary school students, standards at GCSE English language were higher’ Excellence in English Ofsted May 2011 4
Teachers’ Activity Pack How to make classroom talk more effective No Pens Day Wednesday 28 September 2011 Talk is at the heart of education - teachers use talk as the main tool of their trade. The amount and quality of talk that children experience in the early years is a good predictor of how well they’ll do in school. And we now know that teaching children and young people how to use talk to think together can improve their commitment to learning and to their educational attainment. No Pens Day Wednesday will enable teachers to give pupils opportunities throughout the day to develop their communication skills and use them to support their learning. We know from a range of research that pupils are more likely to get enthusiastically involved in their education, and learn best from it, when teachers support and enable effective use of speaking and listening to support learning. We have therefore suggested the following ten key principles for effective use of speaking and listening. >> ‘Open and challenging questions extend pupils’ reasoning and vocabulary and help them to become enthusiastic and self-motivated learners, eager to contribute and share their ideas. At its very best, such teaching generates an infectious enthusiasm for learning’ Ofsted Annual report 2009/2010 and yet... ...‘recent research shows that the average length of a pupil’s contribution to a class discussion is just four words’ National Literacy Trust, 2011 5
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