The Education (Curriculum Minimum Content) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

TALKING AND LISTENING N.I.

Pupils should be enabled to:

• participate in talking and listening in every area of learning;

• listen to, respond to and explore stories, poems, songs, drama, and media texts through the use of traditional and digital resources and recreate parts of them in a range of expressive activities;

• listen to, interpret and retell, with some supporting detail, a range of oral and written texts;

• tell their own stories based on personal experiences and imagination;

• listen to and respond to guidance and instructions;

• take turns at talking and listening in group and paired activities;

• take part in a range of drama activities to support activity based learning across the curriculum;

• express thoughts, feelings and opinions in response to personal experiences, imaginary situations, literature, media and curricular topics and activities;

• present ideas and information with some structure and sequence;

• think about what they say and how they say it;

• speak audibly and clearly, using appropriate quality of speech and voice;

• devise and ask questions to find information in social situations and across the curriculum;

• read aloud from a variety of sources, including their own work, inflecting appropriately to emphasise meaning;

• recognise and talk about features of spoken language, showing phonological awareness.