We have heard a lot about the importance of talk in school recently, not least the final report of the Oracy Education Commission and the new government’s stated intention to put oracy at the heart of the curriculum.
So why is it important to develop children’s ability to be articulate and how is it best to go about fostering this? This article, and the book it stems from – Bringing Talk to Life: Thinking through dialogue in the classroom – attempt to answer these questions with an underpinning rationale and plenty of examples from primary classrooms.
A vital need, a vital skill
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