Review

The Little Book of Talk

By Judith Dancer (Bloomsbury Education, £8.99)

Communication is a cycle, with listening and talking essential foundations for speaking and writing. This book has low-budget ideas, each featuring a section that focuses on direct links to the curriculum activity ideas and suggestions for what to do and say. It is divided into indoor and outdoor experiences – e.g. a box of delights, frozen fun, and speckled frogs. Author and consultant Judith Dancer had a leadership role in national programme Every Child a Talker.

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