English Language and Literacy | Year 1
Use interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours and responding to the contributions of others, and contributing ideas and questions
• using turn-taking in group and pair work
• building a conversation by staying on topic, supporting other speakers, eliciting responses, listening supportively and attentively, asking relevant questions, providing useful feedback and prompting
• participating in informal and structured class, group and pair discussions about content area topics, ideas and information
• interacting appropriately with peers, teachers and visitors
• formulating different types of questions to ask a speaker, such as open and closed questions and “when”, “why” and “how” questions