Continuing Our Oracy Focus
Last week, we shared a post highlighting the importance of oracy skills for our students, referencing the Future of Oracy report. If you missed it, you can access the document below.
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As we continue this month’s spotlight on speech and language awareness, we’d like to share some practical tools to support your conversations with students. Below, you’ll find suggested sentence starters to encourage dialogue and promote effective communication:
- Instigate: “I would like to start by saying…”
- Probe: “What evidence do you have to support this idea?”
- Challenge: “To challenge you, I think…”
- Clarify: “Can you clarify what you mean by…?”
- Summarise: “The main points raised today were…”
- Build: “I agree and would like to add…”
To make this even easier, you can download the cheat sheet below for quick reference. Let’s keep building our students’ confidence and communication skills!
