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

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    • Title:Talking points : discussion activities in the primary classroom / Lyn Dawes with Paul Warwick.
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    • Author/Creator:Dawes, Lyn.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Warwick, Paul.
    • Published/Created:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Communication in education.
      Group work in education.
      Discussion--Study and teaching (Elementary)--Activity programs.
      Interpersonal communication--Study and teaching (Elementary)--Activity programs.
    • Description:viii, 136 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
    • Summary:"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.
      "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.
    • Notes:"A David Fulton book"--Cover.
      Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:9780415614580 (hardback)
      0415614589 (hardback)
      9780415614597 (paperback)
      0415614597 (paperback)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Talking Points for science
      Small creatures
      Micro-organisms
      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
      Georgians
      Vikings
      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
      Bedroom at Arles / Vincent Van Gogh
      Singing Butler / Jack 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)
      By John Gillespie Magee
      Bruce Ismay's Soliloquy / Derek Mahon
      Door / Richard Edwards
      Invisible Beast / Jack Prelutsky
      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
      Vixen / John Clare
      Open all the Cages by Richard Edwards
      Snow / Louis McNeice
      Why Brownlee Left / Paul Muldoon
      Gorilla / Martin Honeysett
      Pied Piper / Robert Browning
      Highwayman / Alfred Noyes
      Peter Pan / J. M. Barrie
      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
      List 6 Things to think of when lying awake in the middle of the night
      List 7 Things that are definitely going to go wong 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 number3
      About the number 5
      Prime numbers
      Circles
      Probability.
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