A 6-slide lesson on the social side of spoken language — the bits that aren’t about WHAT you say, but HOW. Covers listening attentively, taking turns, asking open questions, building on what others say, and the polite way to disagree.

These are the meta-skills that make group discussions actually work in a KS1 classroom. Designed to be shared with an adult and discussed slide by slide rather than rushed through.

A short, practical guide for parents and carers. The Department for Education identifies spoken language as the foundation of everything else in primary English — but it’s also the strand parents have the most influence over, because most of it happens at home, not at school.

This guide explains why everyday conversation matters more than people realise, and gives four small, do-anywhere techniques: the “tell me more” rule, the “swap a word” game, the screen-off dinner, and the goldmine of a 10-minute story-time chat.