Oracy
At Lime Trust, we know that being able to speak clearly and confidently is just as important as reading and writing. Oracy is all about helping children learn to express their ideas, listen to others, and join in conversations.
These skills build confidence, support learning in every subject, and prepare children for life beyond the classroom. Through activities like discussions, storytelling, and group work, we make sure every child has the chance to be heard and understood.
Oracy opportunities within schemes and approaches:
Read Write Inc
- Revisiting and learning new sounds
- Fred talk
- Paired reading
- Hold a sentence and oral rehearsal
Destination Reader
- Exploring new vocabulary
- Word Aware
- Choral reading
- Destination Reader Stems
- Collaborative and paired learning
Lime Writing Approach
- Drama and experiences
- Chotting
- Kind Calling Out (KCO)
- Sentence modelling
- Structured talk linked to lenses
- Publishing and presenting
Ark Maths Mastery
- Talk task/Let’s explore
- Maths sentence stems
- Ark reasoning stems
- Ark Maths ideas for depth
- Use of precise mathematical language to explain reasoning
- Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract approach
- Ark Mathematical vocabulary document
- Star words
- Maths meeting chants and songs
- Transitions
- PiXL number and answer free zones
CUSP (Science, Geography, History, Art, DT, Music, MFL, Computing)
- Vocabulary modules
- Explicit vocabulary instruction
- and-i-learn platform
- Thinking hard tasks (Give one, get one, two things, flick back 3 and 4, word paths and sequencing paths)
- Explorify website
- PiXL Science Big Question Cards
- Pupil book study
- Podcasts
Discovery RE
- Circle time
- Sharing of thoughts, feelings and experiences
- Role play and scenario-based talk
- Debates and group work
Cambridgeshire PSHE
- Circle time
- Sharing of thoughts, feelings and experiences
- Role play and scenario-based talk
- Debates and group work