BOOK SUMMARY OF SPEAKING AND LISTENING - YEAR 2: PHOTOCOPIABLE ACTIVITIES FOR
THE LITERACY HOUR
Speaking and Listening is a brand new strand of the best-selling series
Developing Literacy. There is one book of photocopiable activity sheets for each
year of primary school. The government have recently published a complete set of
teaching objectives for this important area in a document entitled Speaking,
listening, learning: Working with children in KS1 and KS2 which was sent to all
primary school teachers, heads and deputies. This has given a higher status to
talk in the classroom. These books provide a wealth of focused tasks and
activities designed to