ACELY1789
Use interaction skills including initiating topics, making positive statements and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately
Elaborations
- discussing appropriate conventions to use in group discussions (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
- exploring ways to comment on what others say, including using sentence starters such as 'I like the way youâ¦', 'I agree that â¦', 'I have a different thoughtâ¦', 'I'd like to say something differentâ¦' (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
- participating in pair, group and class speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, class discussions and presentations (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
- demonstrating appropriate listening behaviour, responding to and paraphrasing a partner's contribution to a discussion, such as think/pair/share activities (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
- asking relevant questions and making connections with personal experiences and the contributions of others (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
- brainstorming topics, contributing ideas and acknowledging the ideas of others (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
- speaking clearly and with appropriate intonation (Skills: Literacy)
- understanding how to disagree with a point of view or offer an alternative idea courteously (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
- experimenting with presentation strategies such as pitch, volume and intonation (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
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Speaking and Listening Rules Display Poster Set
Help students with speaking and listening rules in the classroom by displaying these simple and concise set of posters.
- Free Plan
Colour Me Carefully – Geometric Animals – Worksheets
A set of four colouring pages to be used as speaking and listening activities.
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Six Thinking Hats Poster and Worksheet Pack
Promote deeper thinking with a set of De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats posters and worksheets.
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Three Bears in the Hot-Seat – Role Play Activity
A role-playing activity where students play the role of a character from the fairy tale, The Three Bears.
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Exploring Procedural Texts Unit Plan
This English unit has been designed to introduce procedural texts to younger students. It addresses the purpose, structure and language features of instructions and recipes.
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Guided Writing - How To Make Fruit Salad
A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple recipe for fruit salad in small groups.
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Modelled Writing - How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth
A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple procedure about a familiar experience.
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Instruct Me!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how procedures provide instructions about completing a task.