Talking Partners@Primary

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Increasingly, many children are starting school with delayed language skills. This course explores how to help these children become better speakers and listeners. It offers a range of teaching strategies and demonstrates how to develop these over time in order to accelerate pupil independence.

It focuses on increasing pupil talk and curricular talk, which additionally improves pupils’ ability to compose orally before writing in a range of contexts. The approaches can be used for in-class support during literacy and other curricular areas or as a targeted intervention. Talking Partners Talk Kit and all resources can be obtained through Target Literacy at a discounted rate.