With over 50 speaking and listening lesson plans, this practical book provides activities that focus on speaking and listening skills. Thinking Voices focuses on the thinking processes that generate and clarify ideas and promotes essential skill development, including reflection on learning.

Activities can be used across all learning areas. They are grouped by their focus on:

- individual and small-group skills

- narrative frameworks and strategies for engaging the audience

- developing and contesting points of view.

Thinking Voices:

- Helps builds a collaborative classroom culture through identifying, expressing and accepting different points of view and perspectives.

- Presents activities that require minimal preparation time and resources and can be used in a broad range of contexts.

- Features a Resource Bank for easy reference to checklists, assessment and activity proformas and lists of relevant resources.

- Offers a curriculum matrix that maps the activities against the outcomes for speaking and listening.