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

TALKING AND LISTENING N.I.

Pupils should be enabled to:

• listen and respond to a range of fiction, poetry, drama and media texts through the use of traditional and digital resources;

• tell, re-tell and interpret stories based on memories, personal experiences, literature, imagination and the content of the curriculum;

• participate in group and class discussions for a variety of curricular purposes;

• know, understand and use the conventions of group discussion;

• share, respond to and evaluate ideas, arguments and points of view and use evidence or reason to justify opinions, actions or proposals;

• formulate, give and respond to guidance, directions and instructions;

• participate in a range of drama activities across the curriculum;

• improvise a scene based on experience, imagination, literature, media and/or curricular topics;

• describe and talk about real experiences and imaginary situations and about people, places, events and artefacts;

• prepare and give a short oral presentation to a familiar group, showing an awareness of audience and including the use of multimedia presentations;

• identify and ask appropriate questions to seek information, views and feelings;

• talk with people in a variety of formal and informal situations;

• use appropriate quality of speech and voice, speaking audibly and varying register, according to the purpose and audience;

• read aloud, inflecting appropriately, to express thoughts and feelings and emphasise the meaning of what they have read;

• recognise and discuss features of spoken language, including formal and informal language, dialect and colloquial speech.