The following works are referenced by the Expert Panel for the National Curriculum Review. They are good 'further reading' for the impact of oracy on wider educational attainment.
Brown, A. L. and Palincsar, A. S., (1989). Guided cooperative learning and individual knowledge acquisition in L. B. Resnick (ed) Knowing, Learning and Instruction, (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum)
Alexander, R., (2008). Towards Dialogic Teaching: rethinking classroom talk. (York: Dialogos)
Mercer, N. and Littlejohn, K., (2007). Dialogue and the Development of Children’s Thinking. (London: Routledge)
Howe, C & Mercer, N., (2007). Children’s social development, peer interaction and classroom learning (Cambridge Primary Review
Research survey 2/1b) (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Faculty of Education)
Fisher, D, Frey, N & Rothenburg, C., (2008). Content-area conversations (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)
Michaels, S., O'Conner, C., Hall, M.W. & Resnick, L.B., (2002) Accountable talk: Classroom conversation that works (CD-ROM) (Institute for Learning)
Nystrand, M., (1997). Opening dialogue: Understanding the dynamics of language and learning in the English classroom. (Teachers College Press).
DES (1975). A Language for Life (the Bullock Report). (London: HMSO)
Norman, K. (ed) (1992) Thinking Voices: The Work of the National Oracy Project. (London: Hodder & Stoughton).
For contemporary documentation of evidence and its practical implications, see the work of The Communication Trust, (2008). Speech, Language and Communication Information for Primary Schools
The Communication Trust, (2009). Speech, Language and Communication Information for Secondary Schools
The Communication Trust, (2009). Speech, Language and Communication Information and the Children’s Workforce. Available at
www.thecommunicationtrust.org.uk.
Gough, P. & Tunmer, W., (1986). The Simple View of Reading. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
See also Gross, J., (2010). The case for giving oral language skills a place in the revised National Curriculum, submission to the
National Curriculum review, September 2010.
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Alexander, R., (2008). Towards Dialogic Teaching: rethinking classroom talk. (York: Dialogos)
Mercer, N. and Littlejohn, K., (2007). Dialogue and the Development of Children’s Thinking. (London: Routledge)
Howe, C & Mercer, N., (2007). Children’s social development, peer interaction and classroom learning (Cambridge Primary Review
Research survey 2/1b) (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Faculty of Education)
Fisher, D, Frey, N & Rothenburg, C., (2008). Content-area conversations (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)
Michaels, S., O'Conner, C., Hall, M.W. & Resnick, L.B., (2002) Accountable talk: Classroom conversation that works (CD-ROM) (Institute for Learning)
Nystrand, M., (1997). Opening dialogue: Understanding the dynamics of language and learning in the English classroom. (Teachers College Press).
DES (1975). A Language for Life (the Bullock Report). (London: HMSO)
Norman, K. (ed) (1992) Thinking Voices: The Work of the National Oracy Project. (London: Hodder & Stoughton).
For contemporary documentation of evidence and its practical implications, see the work of The Communication Trust, (2008). Speech, Language and Communication Information for Primary Schools
The Communication Trust, (2009). Speech, Language and Communication Information for Secondary Schools
The Communication Trust, (2009). Speech, Language and Communication Information and the Children’s Workforce. Available at
www.thecommunicationtrust.org.uk.
Gough, P. & Tunmer, W., (1986). The Simple View of Reading. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
See also Gross, J., (2010). The case for giving oral language skills a place in the revised National Curriculum, submission to the
National Curriculum review, September 2010.
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