| Description |
viii, 136 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Bruce Ismay's Soliloquy / Derek Mahon -- The Door / Richard Edwards -- The Invisible Beast / Jack Prelutsky -- The Quarrel / Eleanor Farjeon -- Helping's Easy / I. Yates -- Waking at Night / J. Kenward -- Spring Pools / Robert Frost -- Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now / A. E. Housman -- Trout Leaping in the River Arun Where a Juggler was Drowned / Charles Dalman -- Tall Nettles / Edward Thomas -- The Vixen / John Clare -- Open all the Cages / Richard Edwards -- Snow / Louis McNeice -- Why Brownlee Left / Paul Muldoon -- Gorilla / Martin Honeysett -- The Pied Piper / Robert Drowning -- The Highwayman / Alfred Noycs -- Peter Pan / J. M. Barrie -- The Once and Future King / T. H. White -- 5.Talking Points for lists -- List 1 Things that are a waste of time -- List 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 -- |
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Contents note continued: 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 -- Probability |
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Machine generated contents note: 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 -- Friends -- Hands -- Places we like -- Money -- Time -- Play -- Pets -- Hedgehogs -- Recycling -- Music -- Weeping Woman / Pablo Picasso -- The Bedroom at Arles / Vincent Van Gogh -- The Singing Butler / Fack Vettriano -- Farbstudie Quadrate / Wassily Kandinski -- All the children of the world -- 4.Talking Points for poems and stories -- In the Station of the Metro / Ezra Pound -- Flanking Sheep in Mosedale / David Scott -- High Flight (An Airman's Ecstasy) / John Gillespie Magee -- |
| 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 |
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"What do children think? How can they learn to talk about their ideas with others? Talking Points: Discussion Activities in the Primary Classroom encourages and supports classroom discussion on a range of topics. Children learning to talk to one another are learning a skill for life. 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. What can children usefully talk about while working on a school topic? This invaluable resource offer engaging, stimulating and thought provoking ideas for children to pit their wits against. The book offers a brief section on how to help children learn the skills of group discussion. There is a section which shows teachers how they can create their own Talking Points to suit topics they are teaching. The main body of the book is the Talking Points resources which are an excellent, tried and tested way of stimulating and supporting extended talk about a topic. The Talking Points offer discussion in several curriculum areas including:<UL><LI>science</LI><LI>literacy</LI><LI>philosophy and creativity for children</LI><LI>history</LI><LI>art and music. </LI></UL>'Talking Points' provoke children to confront their own ideas and those of others. Creative cross-curricular learning happens as children share experience and knowledge, and listen to one another's reasons. 'Talking Points' can start, continue or end a lesson or topic. This book shows teachers how to create relevant 'Talking Points' for their own class of children, and how to capitalise on the children's discussion by orchestrating whole class dialogue"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"A David Fulton book"--t.p. verso |
| Subject |
Communication in education.
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Discussion -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Activity programs.
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Education, Elementary.
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Education, Primary.
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Education.
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Discussion -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- Activity programs.
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Group work in education.
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Interpersonal communication -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Activity programs.
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Interpersonal communication -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- Activity programs.
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| Author |
Warwick, Paul.
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| LC no. |
2011014887 |
| ISBN |
9780415614580 (hardback) |
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9780415614597 (paperback) |
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