This is me 😂 - I talked about auxiliary verbs for 20 minutes on the school run the other day 🫣

Ok, so I didn’t know this about you Barbara - and as a Galgut and Coetzee fan, it looks like I’m putting your novel on my TBR pile! ☺️

💡Oracy strategies in classrooms might include very controlled moments of silent, independent work in order to create space for thinking *before* talking

💡Dialogic is a more useful word for the sort of talk we need to boost in our classrooms
💡There is a social agenda to our work around oracy - there is a system of prejudice to tackle and dismantle

💡Scaffolds are needed to enhance the quality of paired or group talk activities
💡There is enormous power in getting students to ask questions
💡Facilitating talk is a skill we should prize as highly as delivering spoken words