Developing an Oral Language Curriculum for Your School

Did you know?

• That we have a national set of oral language expectations?
• Oral language competence should be developed by age 5 but often isn’t?
• One in three children in New Zealand start school at five years of age without the necessary oral language competence to thrive in our education system?

Jane van der Zeyden, author of The Essential Oral Language Toolkit, and Annette Stock, speech language and literacy specialist, join together to provide quality professional development for all teachers in Primary and Intermediate schools.

The day’s programme will cover the following:
• What we know about oral competency levels of students in New Zealand
• Unpacking the Ministry of Education publication Learning Through Talk
• Using the expectations from Learning Through Talk effectively
• Addressing oral language needs in a cohesive and strategeically planned way in Years 1-8

You can download event information here >>