`This book is aimed at class teachers of Reception to Year 3 seeking ideas to develop their pupils′ speaking and listening skills. The author describes each a

Based on data from 2-1/2 years of observing 1- and 2-year-old children learning to talk in their own homes, this book charts the month-by-month growth of the ch

`This book is aimed at class teachers of Reception to Year 3 seeking ideas to develop their pupils' speaking and listening skills. The author describes each act

“Reading and writing float on a sea of talk” declared James Britton – and yet in our current education system, where the pressure is on for students to pa

This book is an edited collection of articles by leading educationalists and teacher educators on the place of talk in the primary curriculum. Each chapter refl