Maine, F (2004) 'Let's Share Our News and Learn To Talk' The Primary English Magazine (December 2004)
- The spoken language 'codes' of home and school
'First steps' organisation of oral language
- language of social interaction
- language and thinking
- languag and literacy
Choosing a context for talk
- focusing aims
- 'newstelling' time, choosing appropriate things to talk about
Overall outcomes and success
- allows children to bring more structure to written work
- write like they say
- the more they say, the more practice they get for writing?
Talk projects in the classroom
- 'giving a higher status to talk in the classroom offers motivating and purposeful ways of learnig to many children'- The spoken language 'codes' of home and school
'First steps' organisation of oral language
- language of social interaction
- language and thinking
- languag and literacy
Choosing a context for talk
- focusing aims
- 'newstelling' time, choosing appropriate things to talk about
Overall outcomes and success
- allows children to bring more structure to written work
- write like they say
- the more they say, the more practice they get for writing?
