An essential guide for embedding oracy across the curriculum. Grounded in research and rich with strategies, it supports every teacher to build confident, articulate learners. -- Maliki Konteh Saidy * Head of MFL, linkedin.com/in/maliki-konteh-saidy-b7061b134 * A masterful account that simplifies the processes, this excellent companion is streamlined and considered. The reader is invited to dip in and out often. A single page will transform a classroom, placing listening alongside speaking. It is accessible, inclusive, with engaging ideas and multiple extensions. -- Barb Fitzgerald * Education Consultant, Voice Coach, School Principal * An engaging, thoughtful and inspiring collection of strategies to add to my teacher tool kit. I cant wait to include some of these new ideas in my lessons. Certainly a resource Ill have to hand on my desk during planning sessions! -- Carrie Walshe * Houseparent and teacher of English * Topsy and Alan have managed to condense the essence of oracy within secondary schools into a single, easy to pick up and use book. Every teacher should have a copy. -- Craig DCunha * Executive Headteacher * 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Oracy is a practical, ready-to-use guide that will help teachers develop oracy within their subject, supporting listening, group work, and structured talk in every classroom. -- Sharon Noble * Headteacher * A practical, ready-to-use guide that will help teachers and school leaders develop oracy in the curriculum by supporting listening, group work, and structured talk in every classroom. -- Sharon Noble * Headteacher * A gloriously unsentimental guide to making classroom talk actually work. Cuts through the oracy hype with sharp, practical ideas teachers can steal, tweak, and use without a single laminated poster in sight proof that oracy doesnt have to mean endless assemblies or earnest group work gone wrong. -- Tom F. Wright * Author of Oracy: The Politics of Speech Education and Chair of English at the University of Sussex * What [ the 100 ideas series books] have always done well is pack a huge array of ideas, suggestions and advice into deceptively slim tomes - sometimes accompanied by a smattering of theory, but always with a focus on practical, actionable steps conveyed in concise, brisk prose perfectly suited to the needs of time-pressed teachers.
And so it goes here. Page (former assistant head, writing lead and SLE) and Howe (local authority adviser and inspector) are both associate members of Oracy Cambridge, and as knowledgeable a pair of guides as you could wish for. The advice they have to offer is organised into no less than eight distinct sections, structured in such a way there really is something for everyone.
For teachers needing a steer on how to start incorporating oracy into their lessons, there's a generous selection of engaging activities and games to be found throughout the book. Those keen to tackle more advanced challenges can pick up some useful tips on exploring accents, dialects and code switching, while everyone else will find much of interest within the sections dedicated to managing classroom talk, and how oracy can be usefully applied across a whole range of different subject areas. * Teach Secondary Issue 15.2 *
