Students focus on oracy skills as well as literacy skills..

Resources:

A talking frame is needed to support discussion.
(This is a list of key words, sequenced in the order that students could used.)

How It Works:

The teacher provides the students with a list of key words that would be useful to use in answer to a question.

In pairs, the students then speak through their ideas, before writing a paragraph which includes the key words.

Remind them of connectives and the punctuation pyramid, sentence types and so on.

A great way to support students in their use of subject specific terminology.
For example, get students to use key Food Technology words when explaining how to make pasta sauce.

Variations:

Jumble the sequence of the words and get students to discuss the best order in which to use them.