1. No Pens Day Wednesday
Put down your pens!

2. Talking and listening are really important!
Hear all about it!
Talking and listening are really important!

3. What do you think?
Here are some questions to think about....

4. Who do we talk with and listen to at school?

5. We talk with lots of different people in school every day

6. What do we use our talking and listening skills for?

7. We use them for lots of different reasons
Share our news
Make friends
Find out information
Sort out problems
Follow instructions
Ask for help

8. Why are talking and listening skills important?

9. Talking and listening are really important to help us learn
Scientists and clever people know talking and listening are really important to help us learn
Talking and listening are really important to help us learn
That’s right

10. And good talking and listening will help us with our
Learning
Spelling
Writing
Reading
Getting along with each other
Feeling confident

11. Speaking and listening are just like any other skills...

12. With good practice, we can all get better, and better, and better!

13. So although writing is important...

14. ..today, we are going to hide our pens and pencils and learn just by talking and listening

15. We will learn just as much with different activities
Podcasting
Maths games
Word wall
Interviewing each other
Role play

16. Your job is to decide which activities and lessons work best...

17. ..and whether there were times you missed your pens and pencils