Talking points : discussion activities in the primary classroom / Lyn Dawes with Paul Warwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawes, Lyn.

Contributor:

Warwick, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in education.

Group work in education.

Discussion--Study and teaching (Elementary)--Activity programs.

Discussion.

Interpersonal communication--Study and teaching (Elementary)--Activity programs.

Interpersonal communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Talking Points: Discussion Activities in the Primary Classroom encourages and supports classroom discussion on a range of topics, enabling children to develop the important life-skill of effective group communication. Children who can explain their own ideas and take account of the points of view and reasons of others are in the process of becoming truly educated. This book offers a straightforward way of teaching children discussion skills within the framework of a creative curriculum. The book provides an introduction on how to help children learn the skills of group discussion, offering six essential Talk Lessons to use in the classroom, alongside suggestions on how teachers can plan their lessons with a talk focus, set learning outcomes and create their own Talking Points to suit topics they are teaching. The main body of the book contains the Talking Points resources which are an excellent, tried and tested way of stimulating and supporting extended talk about a topic. The Talking Points in this book offer model for teachers to create further Talking Points for their own classes. The Talking Points included here offer discussion in several curriculum areas including:- - Science - Literacy - Philosophy and creativity for children - History - Mathematics - Art and Music This invaluable book offers engaging, stimulating and thought provoking ideas for children to pit their wits against, promoting skills in discussion, analysis, reasoning and interaction. It is highly beneficial reading for teachers working in Key Stage 2, head teachers and those responsible for staff development, as well as students on teacher training courses and graduate training programmes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover; Talking Points: Discussion activities in the primary classroom; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Introduction: What are Talking Points?; 1. Talking Points for science; Small creatures; Micro-organisms; The air and breathing; In the garden; Problems for the Earth; Seeds; Force; Magnetism; Light and shadow; Sound; Our place in space; Solids, liquids and gases; Finding out about a range of materials; Materials and the senses; Water; 2. Talking Points for history; The Georgians; The Vikings; The Incas; 3. Lots to talk about; Ways of learning; Listening

FriendsHands; Places we like; Money; Time; Play; Pets; Hedgehogs; Recycling; Music; Weeping Woman by Pablo Picasso; The Bedroom at Arles by Vincent Van Gogh; The Singing Butler by Jack Vettriano; Farbstudie Quadrate by Wassily Kandinski; All the children of the world; 4. Talking Points for poems and stories; In the Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound; Flanking Sheep in Mosedale by David Scott; High Flight (An Airman's Ecstasy) by John Gillespie Magee; Bruce Ismay's Soliloquy by Derek Mahon; The Door by Richard Edwards; The Invisible Beast by Jack Prelutsky; The Quarrel by Eleanor Farjeon

Helping's Easy by I. YatesWaking at Night by J. Kenward; Spring Pools by Robert Frost; Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now by A. E. Housman; Trout Leaping in the River Arun Where a Juggler was Drowned by Charles Dalman; Tall Nettles by Edward Thomas; The Vixen by John Clare; Open all the Cages by Richard Edwards; Snow by Louis McNeice; Why Brownlee Left by Paul Muldoon; Gorilla by Martin Honeysett; The Pied Piper by Robert Browning; The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes; Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie; The Once and Future King by T. H. White; 5. Talking Points for lists

List 1: Things that are a waste of timeList 2: Things that are always enjoyable; List 3: Things that we would like to change; List 4: Things that we would like to keep the same; List 5: Things that should be round; List 6: Things to think of when lying awake in the middle of the night; List 7: Things that are definitely going to go wrong in the future; List 8: Things about being an adult that are better than being a child; List 10: Things that we aim to do in the future; 6. Talking Points for mathematics; 2D and 3D shapes; About the number 3; About the number 5; Prime numbers; Circles

ProbabilityFurther reading

Notes:

"A David Fulton book".

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-136-73794-4

1-283-46102-1

9786613461025

1-136-73795-2

0-203-81869-5

9780203818695

OCLC:

798531754