Talking Points: Discussion Activities in the Primary Classroom

Lyn Dawes has extensive teaching experience and is currently Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Northampton, UK, and visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, UK. Her previous publications include Creating a Speaking and Listening Classroom: Integrating Talk for Learning at Key Stage 2 and The Essential Speaking and Listening: Talk for Learning at Key Stage 2, both published by David Fulton. Paul Warwick, author of the science information notes which accompany the Talking Points, is Senior Lecturer in Education at Cambridge University, UK, specialising in science education.

• Talking Points Introduction Page 3Talking Points for Science Page 16Small creaturesMicro-organismsThe air and breathingIn the gardenProblems for the EarthSeedsForceMagnetismLight and ShadowSoundOur Place in SpaceSolids, Liquids and GasesFinding out about a range of materialsMaterials and the sensesWaterTalking Points for History Page 53The GeorgiansThe VikingsThe IncasLots to Talk About Page 60Ways of learningListeningFriendsHandsPlaces we likeMoneyTimePlayPetsHedgehogsRecyclingMusicWorks of Art Talking Points: Weeping Woman by Pablo PicassoWorks of Art Talking Points: The Bedroom at Arles by Vincent Van GoghWorks of Art Talking Points: The Singing Butler by Jack VettrianoWorks of Art Talking Points: Farbstudie Quadrate by Wassily Kandinski Talking Points: All the Children of the World5. Talking Points for Poems and Stories Page 80In the Station of the Metro by Ezra PoundFlanking Sheep in Mosedale by David ScottHigh Flight (An airman’s ecstasy) by John Gillespie MageeBruce Ismay’s Soliloquy by Derek MahonThe Door by Richard EdwardsThe Invisible Beast by Jack PrelutskyThe quarrel by Eleanor FarjeonHelping’s Easy by I. YatesWaking at Night by J. KenwardSpring Pools by Robert FrostLoveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now by A. E. HousmanTrout Leaping in the River Arun Where a Juggler was Drowned by Charles DalmanTall nettles by Edward ThomasThe Vixen by John ClareOpen all the cages by Richard EdwardsSnow by Louis McNeiceWhy Brownlee Left by Paul MuldoonGorilla by Martin HoneysettThe Pied Piper by Robert BrowningThe Highwayman by Alfred NoyesPeter Pan by J. M. BarrieThe Once and Future King by T. H. White 6. Talking Points: Lists Page 105List 1. Things that are a waste of timeList 2. Things that are always enjoyableList 3. Things that we would like to changeList 4. Things that we would like to keep the sameList 5. Things that should be roundList 6. Things to think of when lying awake in the middle of the nightList 7. Things that are going to go wrong in the futureList 8. Things about being an adult that are better than being a childList 10. Things that we aim to do7. Talking Points for Mathematics Page 1152D & 3D shapesAbout the number 3About the number 5Prime NumbersCirclesProbabilityFurther Reading Page 123