How You Can Support Your Child’s Oracy
Here’s how you can support oracy at home:
- Encourage discussion at home: ask open-ended questions and give time to respond
- Celebrate speaking opportunities — from storytelling to helping with tasks
- Explore vocabulary together: read The Day articles or subject key terms
- Practise listening as a family skill: taking turns, asking follow-ups, reflecting
- Ask for reasons: “Why do you think that?”, “Can you explain it another way?”
By modelling good talk and listening at home, you reinforce the work we do in school — and you help your child grow into a thoughtful, articulate and confident communicator.
Here are some resources you may find helpful:
This is an amazing site which is free for individuals and has numerous reading/oracy strategies and competitions
Offers over 75,00 free online books for all ages
An article on how oracy can transform your child’s education
At Coventry Academy, Oracy is transformation.
It’s the bridge between exclusion and expression.
It’s the voice that says: I belong here. I believe in myself. I become something more.
If you’d like to learn more about how we embed oracy in our curriculum, or to see it in action, please get in touch. We’d love to share how your child’s voice can thrive at Coventry Academy.
Sharon Gray, Oracy Lead: SGray@ca.sapmat.org.uk