HFL Education’s Spoken Language Progression Document provides a framework to enable practitioners to plan for and monitor progression of spoken language skills from Year 1 through to Year 6.

The framework is fully aligned with the National Curriculum’s statutory requirements for Spoken Language across all areas of the curriculum. It provides descriptions of observable, age-appropriate pupil behaviours across five areas of learning:

• Listening and responding
• Questioning
• Oral rehearsing/presenting
• Vocabulary
• Talking with others

For maximum flexibility, the behaviours are presented in two ways:

• By year group
• By area of learning across all year groups.

The accompanying Audit Tool allows subject and senior leaders to assess their whole-school oracy provision, both as an independent area (learning to talk) and integrated within the wider curriculum (learning through talk).

Cost: £15. (To purchase, teachers must first register for an account on HfL Education’s Hub.)

About HFL Education: HFL Education is an award-winning provider of training and support products and services to schools and educational settings both within and outside Hertfordshire. It is the UK’s largest school company and operates with a not-for-profit ethos, working with 99% of schools in Hertfordshire and over 3000 schools and settings nationally.