The Speaking and Listening Learning Environment

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The Speaking and ListeningLearning Environment

• ICT
• Classroom computer and headphones with
• Talking books
• Space for small group work, both independent
• and collaborative
• Use of IWB for discussion activities and pupil
• presentations
• Online access to video clips to support
  curriculum
• discussions
• Webcams for online discussions and to record
  speaking
• Multimedia and presentation software with
  facility to
• include childrens voice-overs and narrations
• Microphones for pupils to use

Book Collection This includes poetry to
perform, play scripts and multiple copies of
core texts
Furniture organised to facilitate collaborative
work in pairs and small groups

• A listening area
• Tape recorder or CD player with headphones
• Cushions or appropriate seating for pairs or
  small groups
• Story tape or CDs and accompanying books,
  including books
• in different languages both published and made
  by staff,
• parents and pupils
• Tapes made by the children of their own stories
  or poems or
• ones they have chosen
• Collection of music CDs
• Story props

A collection of props for story telling Puppets,
small world, and story boxes or sacks
Role play area With a changing theme linked to
class topics, which provide opportunities for
collaborative play and talk in role
Planned speaking and listening opportunities
and flexible groupings
Interactive topic related displays/Learning walls
including activities, artefacts/objects,
illustrations and key questions to stimulate
talk and enquiries. Also, pupils notes on flip
chart paper and sticky notes recording views and
opinions, pupils own work and any scaffolding
used to support speaking and listening in class,
for Example posters displaying ground rules for
speaking and listening
Carpet area To enable the whole class to gather
for story time, circle time and whole class
discussions and story time