Listening and Speaking

Why is it important?

• Listening and speaking are seen as core skills of early literacy

• pupils should be taught how to listen carefully 

• at every stage, the stress, rhythm and inotation patterns need to be used correctly

• pupils need to listen carefully and respond to what others say and think

• social conventions in listening and speaking such as turn taking, politeness and courtesy need to be observed

Proposed Activities for Listening and Speaking

• Listen and guess the sound

        - animals (meow, moo, woof, buzz, hiss...)

        - vehicles (vroom, choo, kring, preet...)

• Play the musical instrument and pupils make the sound

        - triangle

        - castanet

        - drum

        - guitar

• Use body parts to produce sounds. Others guees the sound

        - clap your hands

        - stamp your feet
     
        - slap your thighs

        - click your tounge

        - snap your fingers

• Tounge twisters
• Talk about pictures
• Listen and repeat a story
• Listen and recite jazz chant
• Talk to a patner
• Whisper
• Listen and recite rhymes or sing songs
• Listen and follow simple instructions