Setting the Scene

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Staff INSET

• This presentation has been designed to give your
  staff an understanding of the aims, structure and
  content of i-learn speaking and listening prior
  to a hands-on practice session
• Feel free to edit this presentation to suit your
  own purposes
• The Help document in i-learn speaking and
  listening contains step-by-step advice on all
  screens

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Staff INSET Objectives

• To introduce i-learn speaking and listening
  (ILSL)
• To demonstrate how the content can be used to
  teach speaking and listening skills in an
  innovative and engaging way
• To prepare for a hands-on practice session

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Rationale of ILSL

• Explicit teaching of the four Framework strands
  of speaking and listening
• Planned and purposeful opportunities for talk,
  structured interaction and drama
• Provision of good models for talk, including
  group discussion and interaction

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Rationale of ILSL

• Opportunities to rehearse and apply skills in
  literacy and across the curriculum
• Opportunities to talk about talk and reflect upon
  its usage
• Planned assessment opportunities

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Main features

• DVD-ROMs make the best use of ICT
• Video Models for talk, drama strategies and
  conventions, samples for discussion
• Audio Stories and poems, samples of talk for
  analysis
• Interactive activities Fun challenges for
  whole-class usage

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Main features

• Teachers Books provide
• Introductory materials Useful background
  information on techniques and conventions
• Succinct teaching plans Flexible materials and
  ideas for whole-class, group and paired
  activities
• Assessment Peer- and self-assessment
  opportunities, success criteria, assessment
  charts

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Structure

• The series has 22 units overall
• Each unit is divided into six focuses
• Speakercise provides stimulating additional
  activities for Years 1 and 2

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Year 1 units

• Performing poetry Children learn how to read
  aloud effectively, understanding the role of
  expression
• The art of presentation Children learn how to
  make a good impression using verbal and
  non-verbal techniques
• Asking good questions Children learn how to
  generate questions for further clarification
• Telling stories Children learn the basics of
  storytelling in preparation for telling a story

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Year 2 units

• Expressing opinions Children learn how to think
  independently and to share views and opinions
  effectively
• Instructions and directions Children produce an
  effective set of oral instructions
• Creating tableaux Children discuss and create a
  series of tableaux to represent a story
• Effective explanations Children produce an
  effective oral explanation using verbal and
  non-verbal communication skills

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Year 3 units

• Reading aloud Children review and practise
  strategies for reading aloud effectively
• Presenting information Children identify and
  apply features of informative broadcasts and live
  presentations
• Working collaboratively Children learn how to
  work collaboratively in group discussion,
  expressing and sharing opinions
• Instructions and explanations Children create
  sets of oral instructions and oral explanations

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Year 4 units

• Audience and purpose Children review and
  practise how to vary talk according to audience
  and purpose
• Recount Children create formal and informal oral
  recounts
• Persuasion Children explore and write radio
  adverts for different audiences and purposes
• Working in role Children use improvisation
  techniques to work in role and consider how
  characters viewpoints might differ

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Year 5 units

• Telling traditional tales Children understand
  features of traditional tales and how to give an
  effective retelling
• Scripted broadcast Children recognise and
  understand the purpose and features of
  broadcasts, evaluate existing material and
  perform original scripted material
• Persuasive argument Children identify and
  analyse the features of persuasive argument and
  to use them in creating effective persuasive
  speeches

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Year 6 units

• Language variation Children identify and analyse
  ways in which spoken language varies according to
  audience, purpose and context, exploring
  differences between standard and non-standard
  English
• Debate and discussion Children explore different
  ways of debating and discussing, including
  dialogic talk and formal structured debates
• Multimodal presentation Children plan, present
  and evaluate a multimodal presentation

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The six focuses

• Each unit is divided into 6 focuses
• Setting the scene
• Learning from models
• Lets practise
• Lets practise some more
• How did they do?
• Over to you!
• To increase flexibility, they can be used out of
  sequence

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The six focuses

• Setting the scene
• Fun introductory activities

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The six focuses

• Learning from models
• An engaging activity or video modelling effective
  speaking and listening

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The six focuses

• Lets practise
• Lets practise some more
• Opportunities to practise, with a heavy emphasis
  on group discussion and interaction

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The six focuses

• How did they do?
• Watch and evaluate videos of children speaking
  and listening

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The six focuses

• Over to you!
• A fun and engaging end-of-unit task with an
  emphasis on audience and purpose
• Assessment grids in the Teachers Book are
  designed to be used with this focus

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The Pad

• Create your own screens within i-learn speaking
  and listening
• Use pictures, video etc. from the product,
  or import your own!
• Templates include drag-and-drop and
  multiple-choice screens

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The Teachers area

• Reorder screens to make your own lessons
• Assign screens to the Childrens area for
  your class to access
• Edit screens from the product

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