ACELY1784

Use interaction skills including listening while others speak, using appropriate voice levels, articulation and body language, gestures and eye contact

Elaborations

• learning how to use different voice levels appropriate to a situation, for example learning about 'inside voices' and 'outside voices' (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
• learning to ask questions and provide answers that are more than one or two words (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• participating in speaking and listening situations, exchanging ideas with peers in pairs and small groups and engaging in class discussions, listening to others and contributing ideas (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
• showing understanding of appropriate listening behaviour, such as listening without interrupting, and looking at the speaker if culturally appropriate (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• listening and responding to oral and multimodal texts including rhymes and poems, texts read aloud and various types of digital texts (Skills: Literacy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• engaging in conversations with peers and adults in home language or dialect (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Intercultural Understanding)
• asking and answering questions using appropriate intonation (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• speaking so that the student can be heard and understood (Skills: Literacy, Personal and Social Capability)
• altering volume for inside and outside situations and when speaking to an audience (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)

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