PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL
Explore classroom speaking and listening activities for primary and middle school. Discover teacher-led games, storytelling and visual discussion tools by Oracy.
Choose an activity for your lesson goal. Teachers can adapt the language and support to their class, from a first description to an explanation supported by evidence.
Oracy Anthologies 1 · Grade 1
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Focus and self-regulation
Use a sleeping dragon to make classroom sound levels visible during independent work, group tasks or transitions. Teachers choose a suitable noise threshold.
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Voice and delivery
Practise a steady speaking voice with an animated rocket journey. Teachers can select a topic and adjust the sound range for primary or middle-school learners.
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Guided speaking and retrieval
Turn classroom questions into an animated journey with Magic Train. Prepare speaking prompts or multiple-choice questions for primary and middle-school lessons.
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Inference and explanation
Reveal a hidden world through classroom questions. Mystery Window combines visual clues, prediction and teacher-created speaking or multiple-choice activities.
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Narrative and sequencing
Create an oral story with three picture or written frames. Story Machine lets teachers choose a format and guide storytelling from beginning to middle to ending.
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Listening and reasoning
Listen for details and explain a conclusion with Listening Detectives. Adapt the classroom listening cases and questions to primary or middle-school learners.
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Expression and interpretation
Explore how the same words can express different feelings. Emotion Studio pairs speaking prompts with facial expressions and an optional classroom timer.
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Description and clarification
Practise precise descriptions while a partner listens and draws. Describe & Draw supports classroom work on vocabulary, spatial language and clarification.
Explore activity →Use a visual activity to invite questions, explanations and attentive listening. Give pupils thinking time, model a helpful response and make space for quieter voices. Choose prompts that connect to what your class is learning.
These pages introduce the tools. Opening an activity requires an authorised teacher account. Read more about oracy and classroom communication.