The National Curriculum outlines the following objectives for all year groups in Spoken Language.
Pupils should be taught to:
- listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
- ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge
- use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary
- articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
- give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes,
including for expressing feelings - maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
- use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising,
imagining and exploring ideas - speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English
- participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and
debates - gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s)
- consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others
- select and use appropriate registers for effective communication.
