use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions

How Bloomi helps with this

This is a readiness-year topic that builds towards the next NAPLAN year. Bloomi practises it as curriculum mastery, never test drilling.

What this looks like in the classroom

• participating in pair, group, class, school and community speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, discussions, debates and presentations
• using strategies; for example, pausing, questioning, rephrasing, repeating, summarising, reviewing and asking clarifying questions when discussing topics
• recognising that closed questions ask for precise responses while open questions prompt a speaker to provide more information