StOracy: Teaching Confident Communication through Storytelling
Chris Smith PhD, Jules Pottle and Ed Finch
Learn how to teach oracy skills to primary school students through storytelling: the StOracy Method. By learning to retell stories by heart and then creatively re-applying the language and ideas, students master both fluent speech and active listening. Oracy is a crucial life skill for education, employment, relating and reflecting.
The main body of the book comprises 7 stories and ten classroom activities linked to each story, with examples from reception to year 6.
Each example includes:
- How to teach students to tell the story in their own words.
- How to deepen student’s understanding of the story through drama, movement, art and poetry.
- How to re-use the ideas in the story to create new ones, applying story ideas to a new context.
Each activity is described in detail. A set of instructions explain each teaching step, while a ‘what to say’ section gives ideas about what a teacher might say to the class, step by step. In this way the details of how to teach are made explicit.
If you want to start teaching oracy through story, this book will get you started.
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Price £24.99 Published: 2026, Twinberrow Publishing.
ISBN-13 : 979-8276521305