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Elevating Oracy and Academic Language
Congratulations! You’re ready to bring purpose and power to student talk. You know that oracy isn’t “extra.” It’s essential. When students speak, they shape understanding, refine thinking, and prepare to read and write with depth.
Whether you’re supporting multilingual learners, trying out new discussion routines, or wondering how to build content-rich vocabulary through conversation, this is your moment. You’re stepping into a phase where language isn’t just taught—it’s lived. And the ripple effect? It’s huge—for comprehension, writing, confidence, and access.
Start here.
Course Taster: Supporting MLLs in the Face of New Trends
Watch the selected lessons on background knowledge, vocabulary scaffolds, and accountable talk. Reflect on your own classroom—and if possible, with a colleague:
Where do we see student talk supporting deeper thinking?
Where is it missing?
Create a quick inventory of current talk routines.
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Next…
Use the Vocabulary Mapping Framework to choose 3–5 key terms for an upcoming unit. Plan how students will rehearse these words out loud—through turn-and-talks, sentence frames, or discussion routines aligned to your content goals.
Finally…
Course Taster: Cultivating Community- G3-G8
Try one collaborative talk routine with your class or team. Practice together and use the “Look–Listen–Notice” reflection tool to observe who is speaking, what’s being said, and how it connects to learning.
- Look: What are students doing with their bodies during talk time? Are they facing each other? Using visuals or sentence frames? Following discussion norms?
-Listen: What kinds of language are students using? Are they building on one another’s ideas, using academic vocabulary, or just responding to prompts?
-Notice: What does this tell us about learning? Who is participating? Who is silent? Is talk deepening understanding?
Debrief what you notice with a peer or during a PLC.
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These tasters are just the beginning.
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