Participating in effective debates
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Why this why now
This unit builds on the primary English units where pupils started to have simple structured debates. It also builds on the secondary English unit, 'the fundamentals of effective discussion', where pupils learnt about how to form opinions and listen carefully to others. In this unit, pupils learn how they can use their active listening skills to understand and counter other people's arguements. This unit builds towards the unit 'creating and performing slam poetry', where pupils will continue to build their confidence in articulating themselves in public speaking.
Prior knowledge requirements
- pupils understand what makes a productive discussion and an effective active listener
- pupils can develop a discussion by responding appropriately and asking effective questions
- pupils understand how to effectively choose and use evidence to develop comments in a discussion
- pupils can use a success criteria to evaluate spoken language skills and offer specific feedback
- pupils understand the fundamentals of formal speaking
Why this why now
This unit builds on the primary English units where pupils started to have simple structured debates. It also builds on the secondary English unit, 'the fundamentals of effective discussion', where pupils learnt about how to form opinions and listen carefully to others. In this unit, pupils learn how they can use their active listening skills to understand and counter other people's arguements. This unit builds towards the unit 'creating and performing slam poetry', where pupils will continue to build their confidence in articulating themselves in public speaking.
Prior knowledge requirements
- pupils understand what makes a productive discussion and an effective active listener
- pupils can develop a discussion by responding appropriately and asking effective questions
- pupils understand how to effectively choose and use evidence to develop comments in a discussion
- pupils can use a success criteria to evaluate spoken language skills and offer specific feedback
- pupils understand the fundamentals of formal speaking
Participating in effective debates
In this unit, pupils learn about debate and practise having debates. They first learn what a debate is, before presenting arguments for a debate and then learning how you create rebuttals in debates. Pupils then finish the unit by having a debate.
4 lessons in unit
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