First Steps: Speaking and Listening Resource Book 2ed

A practical and highly accessible text that provides a fresh focus on the explicit teaching of speaking and listening. Includes detailed support material that will enhance instruction and help teachers build effective literacy classrooms. All the critical aspects of what and how (as well as why) are explained, including the explicit teaching of different forms of spoken language, speaking and listening processes, strategies and conventions, and the contextual aspects associated with understanding oral texts.

This text is an essential companion to the First Steps 2nd Edition Speaking and Listening Map of Development