100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Oracy
Alan Howe author Topsy Page author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:15th Jan '26
£15.00
This title is due to be published on 15th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The essential handbook of 100 easy-to-use ideas to help every student become a confident communicator.
No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you! The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers. Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas to inspire and engage all learners.
Combining clear, practical advice and tried-and-tested strategies, 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Oracy is the essential handbook to making every child in your class a confident communicator.
Oracy experts Topsy Page and Alan Howe present 100 easy-to-implement ideas directly from the classroom, engaging everyone from the ‘quiet student’ in your class to students with SEND or EAL in a variety of pair, group and whole-class talk activities and approaches. Discover inspiring yet simple strategies to get your students talking as well as ways to improve your own questioning, Teacher Talk and communication.
Oracy is increasingly thought to be a core skill to be taught at school, key for improving personal outcomes and for future success. Clear communication is crucial for developing critical thinking skills, confidence and attainment across the curriculum. Including tips for teachers, talk prompts, and ideas, this collection of tips, games and activities links directly to the National Curriculum and offers strategies to improve oracy for individual students, classes and the whole school.
Written by experts in their field, the 100 Ideas books offer practical ideas for busy teachers. They include step-by-step instructions, teaching tips and taking it further ideas. Follow the conversation online using #100Ideas.
An essential guide for embedding oracy across the curriculum. Grounded in research and rich with strategies, it supports every teacher to build confident, articulate learners. -- Maliki Konteh Saidy * Head of MFL, linkedin.com/in/maliki-konteh-saidy-b7061b134 *
A masterful account that simplifies the processes, this excellent companion is streamlined and considered. The reader is invited to dip in and out often. A single page will transform a classroom, placing listening alongside speaking. It is accessible, inclusive, with engaging ideas and multiple extensions. -- Barb Fitzgerald * Education Consultant, Voice Coach, School Principal *
An engaging, thoughtful and inspiring collection of strategies to add to my teacher tool kit. I can’t wait to include some of these new ideas in my lessons. Certainly a resource I’ll have to hand on my desk during planning sessions! -- Carrie Walshe * Houseparent and teacher of English *
Topsy and Alan have managed to condense the essence of oracy within secondary schools into a single, easy to pick up and use book. Every teacher should have a copy. -- Craig D’Cunha * Executive Headteacher *
100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Oracy is a practical, ready-to-use guide that will help teachers develop oracy within their subject, supporting listening, group work, and structured talk in every classroom. -- Sharon Noble * Headteacher *
A practical, ready-to-use guide that will help teachers and school leaders develop oracy in the curriculum by supporting listening, group work, and structured talk in every classroom. -- Sharon Noble * Headteacher *
A gloriously unsentimental guide to making classroom talk actually work. Cuts through the oracy hype with sharp, practical ideas teachers can steal, tweak, and use without a single laminated poster in sight – proof that oracy doesn’t have to mean endless assemblies or earnest group work gone wrong. -- Tom F. Wright * Author of Oracy: The Politics of Speech Education and Chair of English at the University of Sussex *
ISBN: 9781801997331
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144 pages