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Exploring Ideas Through Talk

META
English›Speaking & Listening|Ages 4—6|ID: mt_n6GhzDPllD

Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining, and exploring ideas; use strategies to build vocabulary through talk

Mastery Evidence

  • Wonder aloud about possibilities (e.g. 'What if...' or 'I think it might be because...')
  • Try out new vocabulary in conversation after hearing it in a story or lesson
  • Explore ideas through talk before committing them to writing

Assessment Prompt

“When [child] is trying to figure something out — like why something happened in a story or how something works — do they talk through their ideas out loud and explore possibilities before settling on an answer?”

Curriculum Standards2 alignments

Eng.SL.3The national curriculum in England
Build vocabulary

Use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary

English · Key Stage 1 and 2
Eng.SL.7The national curriculum in England
Develop understanding through spoken language

Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas

English · Key Stage 1 and 2

Prerequisites1

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  • Feeling of not understanding soft

    Using talk to explore ideas and speculate requires noticing what you don't yet understand — the comprehension-monitoring habit in a spoken register

    • Asking for Help hard

      Noticing confusion and acting on it requires already knowing that asking for help is a valid response to being stuck

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