Learn speaking skills: plan a talk, explain clearly and keep listeners hooked as you perform to a live cartoon audience with Echo the microphone.
Years 1–6 english · 1
Years 1–6 english · 1
Years 1–6 english · 1
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Years 1–6 english · 2
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What the chapters cover in the national curriculum in England:
The Speaking Studio is an interactive game that teaches children aged 7–11 speaking skills from the KS2 spoken language curriculum: planning what to say, giving clear descriptions and explanations, speaking audibly in Standard English and keeping a listener's interest. Echo the microphone reads every line aloud and shows it as a caption.
Children help Robo-Sketch draw an alien by choosing precise descriptions, and climb a story mountain from opening to ending. They tune a volume dial for a partner, a class or a school hall, and hear the same sentence at rocket, steady and snail pace. They pop filler words like um, and fix sentences such as "we was" so they become Standard English.
In the last room, they give a talk about sharks to an audience of animals while an interest meter rises and falls. Short speak-aloud moments let them try each skill for real.
Speaking audibly means talking loudly enough for every listener to hear you, and fluently means speaking smoothly at a steady pace. A fluent speaker pauses between ideas instead of stopping and starting or filling gaps with um and er.
Standard English is the form of English that people everywhere understand, using forms like we were instead of we was and I did instead of I done. It is about the words you choose, not your accent, so it can be spoken in any accent.
Children can start with a hook, such as a question or a surprising fact, then keep a lively voice and look at their listeners. If people yawn or look away, asking them a question helps bring them back into the talk.
The game is for children aged 7 to 11 and is pitched mainly at Year 4, matching the spoken language part of the national curriculum in England. Every line is read aloud and shown as a caption, so less confident readers can follow along.
It includes six rooms, each with an animated introduction, hands-on activities and a three-question check, plus a 10-question Showtime Challenge. Playing everything takes about 50 minutes, and children can start any room from the studio map.
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