100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Oracy

An essential guide for embedding oracy across the curriculum. Grounded in research and rich with strategies, it supports every teacher to build confident, articulate learners. – Maliki Konteh Saidy * Head of MFL, linkedin.com/in/maliki-konteh-saidy-b7061b134 *A masterful account that simplifies the processes, this excellent companion is streamlined and considered. The reader is invited to dip in and out often. A single page will transform a classroom, placing listening alongside speaking. It is accessible, inclusive, with engaging ideas and multiple extensions. – Barb Fitzgerald * Education Consultant, Voice Coach, School Principal *An engaging, thoughtful and inspiring collection of strategies to add to my teacher tool kit. I can’t wait to include some of these new ideas in my lessons. Certainly a resource I’ll have to hand on my desk during planning sessions! – Carrie Walshe * Houseparent and teacher of English *Alan and Topsy have managed to condense the essence of oracy within secondary schools into a single, easy to pick up and use book. Every teacher should have a copy. – Craig D’Cunha * Executive Headteacher *100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Oracy is a practical, ready-to-use guide that will help teachers develop oracy within their subject, supporting listening, group work, and structured talk in every classroom. – Sharon Noble * Headteacher *A practical, ready-to-use guide that will help teachers and school leaders develop oracy in the curriculum by supporting listening, group work, and structured talk in every classroom. – Sharon Noble * Headteacher *A gloriously unsentimental guide to making classroom talk actually work. Cuts through the oracy hype with sharp, practical ideas teachers can steal, tweak, and use without a single laminated poster in sight – proof that oracy doesn’t have to mean endless assemblies or earnest group work gone wrong. – Tom F. Wright * Author of Oracy: The Politics of Speech Education and Chair of English at the University of Sussex *

Topsy Page is a qualified teacher, former Assistant Head, Writing Lead and SLE. She is passionate about transforming classrooms using oracy and has worked with schools to develop a culture of high-quality dialogue and reasoning across the curriculum through training, coaching and consultancy. She is an associate member of Oracy Cambridge and the author of 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Oracy.

Alan Howe is an associate member of Oracy Cambridge. He has worked for over forty years at the forefront of educational change and improvement in the UK as a Local Authority Adviser and Inspector, leading initiatives for both primary and secondary phases in literacy and English teaching, assessment, and teaching and learning.

Dan Booth-Howe is currently a senior leader with responsibility for literacy in a large mixed comprehensive school. He has extensive experience in teaching from KS2 to KS5, with a specialism in the social sciences and humanities.