VC2E1LY01

use interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours and responding to the read or spoken contributions of others, and contributing ideas and questions

• using turn-taking in group and pair work
• building a conversation by staying on topic, supporting other speakers, eliciting responses, listening supportively and attentively, asking relevant questions, providing useful feedback and prompting
• participating in informal and structured class, group and pair discussions about content area topics, ideas and information
• interacting appropriately with peers, teachers and visitors
• formulating different types of questions to ask a speaker or someone reading aloud, such as open and closed questions and ‘when’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions