Strand 1

1 – Listening and responding

1.1 Developing active listening skills and strategies

• Year 7 Identify key features of speech in a variety of contexts and some key skills and trategies used by speakers.
• Year 8 Explain the effect of specific features of speech, the skills and strategies used by speakers and identify areas for improvemen
• Year 9 Respond to speaker and give constructive feedback, analysing skills, subject matter, intended listeners and the purpose of talk

Links to Assessing Pupil Progress

• SPLAF2 talking with others
• SPLAF4 talking about talk

1.2 Understanding and responding to what speakers say in formal and informal contexts

• Year 7 Identify, sift and summarise the most important points or key ideas from a talk or discussion
• Year 8 Explain the speaker’s intentions and mak inferences from speech in a variety of contexts
• Year 9 Analyse the underlying themes or issues in a range of different contexts, identifying implied and explicit meanings and the speaker’s intentions

Links to Assessing Pupil Progress

• SPLAF2 talking with others,
• SPLAF4 talking about talk