Description
News Talk for Speech Pathologists promotes the vital importance of a planned and structured approach to oral language programming. It describes how news telling can be a major activity for developing key speaking and listening skills that are critical to children’s success across all curriculum areas. A developmental perspective of news telling encourages inclusive teaching practice for all children, including those with communication difficulties.
This interactive CD provides a dynamic workshop ready for speech pathologists to present to teachers and a self-study package, which explores news telling in the classroom.
The workshop package contains:
- Numerous video clips of children and teachers demonstrating news telling
- Videos demonstrating key teaching strategies and ideas on how to set up news telling
- Case studies and activities
- Workshop handouts
- Ready to use, colourful visual strategies and checklists for tracking individual progress
There is also a self-study package for teachers that contains comments from teachers in the field, voiceovers explaining key concepts, short interactive quizzes to test key ideas and extra video footage.
News Talk for Speech Pathologists promotes the vital importance of a planned and structured approach to oral language programming. It describes how news telling can be a major activity for developing key speaking and listening skills that are critical to children’s success across all curriculum areas. A developmental perspective of news telling encourages inclusive teaching practice for all children, including those with communication difficulties.
