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Develop advanced techniques for teaching listening and speaking skills using videos and interactive activities.
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Launch Date
3 July 2008
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Children get talking AND listening with free literacy resource for London’s primary schools
London Grid for Learning now has available an important new teaching resource, i-learn: speaking and listening, to tackle the problem that more children are entering primary school with poor language skills, often because they don’t have much experience in talking and listening to each other.
Freely available to all London primary schools, i-learn: speaking and listening from Cambridge-Hitachi helps children develop and practice these all-important skills. It addresses a recently prioritised aspect of primary literacy. In fact, in a major review of the UK primary school curriculum published this year, educationalist Sir Jim Rose recommended a new focus on speaking and listening in the classroom.
“Speaking and listening is the foundation upon which all other learning takes place,” commented Louise Glasspoole, Series Editor for this teaching tool, “so it should be at the heart of all learning, in all subject areas.” With this in mind, this digital learning resource has been specifically designed to be highly flexible and open-ended to allow easy integration into all areas of the curriculum.
Commenting on the selection of i-learn: speaking and listening, Bob Usher, Content Manager at London Grid for Learning said: “Our editorial board gave i-learn: speaking and listening a unanimous thumbs up, describing it as easy-to-use with first-rate teacher guidance resources. Every primary school in London will benefit from using this and boosting the language skills of their pupils.”
i-learn: speaking and listening is designed specifically for use on interactive white boards and uses model audio and visual presentations to demonstrate the most effective styles of talking. Each of the 26 units across both Key stage 1 and Key stage 2 feature simple top tips for speaking and listening with short, snappy whole-class activities which allow children to practise their techniques. There are plenty of opportunities to talk about talk and reflect upon its usage.
London Grid for Learning now has available an important new teaching resource, i-learn: speaking and listening, to tackle the problem that more children are entering primary school with poor language skills, often because they don’t have much experience in talking and listening to each other.
Freely available to all London primary schools, i-learn: speaking and listening from Cambridge-Hitachi helps children develop and practice these all-important skills. It addresses a recently prioritised aspect of primary literacy. In fact, in a major review of the UK primary school curriculum published this year, educationalist Sir Jim Rose recommended a new focus on speaking and listening in the classroom.
“Speaking and listening is the foundation upon which all other learning takes place,” commented Louise Glasspoole, Series Editor for this teaching tool, “so it should be at the heart of all learning, in all subject areas.” With this in mind, this digital learning resource has been specifically designed to be highly flexible and open-ended to allow easy integration into all areas of the curriculum.
Commenting on the selection of i-learn: speaking and listening, Bob Usher, Content Manager at London Grid for Learning said: “Our editorial board gave i-learn: speaking and listening a unanimous thumbs up, describing it as easy-to-use with first-rate teacher guidance resources. Every primary school in London will benefit from using this and boosting the language skills of their pupils.”
i-learn: speaking and listening is designed specifically for use on interactive white boards and uses model audio and visual presentations to demonstrate the most effective styles of talking. Each of the 26 units across both Key stage 1 and Key stage 2 feature simple top tips for speaking and listening with short, snappy whole-class activities which allow children to practise their techniques. There are plenty of opportunities to talk about talk and reflect upon its usage.
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