Coomber and the National Curriculum

Speaking & Listening

How do I know if I'm making sense?

Use Coomber recorders to record children's speech. This helps to improve diction, organise what they want to say and focus on the main points of interest.

Children can listen to the result and start to understand how they can improve their speaking skills.

For KS2 children should be developing their speaking skills. A Coomber recorder provides the opportunity to record spoken English in support of childrens progress.

How can I make you understand if you won't listen?

Play audio tapes and CDs so that children can listen to stories. Hold quizzes or other games to see who remembers information from the stories. This helps sustain concentration and remember specific points of interest. It also gives children the opportunity to hear a range of other voices and dialects.

Children listening to the stories can be encouraged to start asking questions to clarify meaning about what they hear, as well as offering comments about the subject material.

For KS2 use audio recordings to further develop listening skills. Children can be encouraged to identify the gist of a story or the key points of discussions and relate those to information previously mentioned.

Group Discussion and interaction

Record group discussions and give children the opportunity to understand how they sound and respond in a group situation. It allows them to appreciate why they need to take turns speaking and how they can contribute to group talks.

Reading & Writing

What just happened then?

Use Coomber CD players with variable speed controls to slow down words. Syllables become more apparent as speech is slowed down and children can hear how complicated words are broken down.

Children can more easily hear, identify and segment phonemes in the words.

Creative Works

"That's great kids, why don't you just say that again and I'll record it so that Mrs Gibbs can hear it later..."

Record children as they recite and act out stories and poems.

Use audio recordings to help children develop an understanding of rhythm, rhyme and sound in poems.

Play audio stories, plays and poems in the classroom.

Use recordings as supporting evidence of standards achieved in the classroom.

393 Cassette Recorder

for group listening and easy recordings

396 Cassette Recorder

use with headsets (headphones with built in microphones) to improve talking and listening skills

2017 CD Player and Cassette Recorder

for group/classroom listening of CD and cassettes and recording to cassette

2018 CD Player and Cassette Recorder

use with headsets (headphones with built in microphones) to improve talking and listening skills. Use the variable speed to slow down a CD and break down the pronunciation of difficult words.

6020, 6021, 6030, 6031

Our CD Recorders are able to record direct from microphone and line input. Record poetry and speech in the classroom. Playback in class or listen through up to 6 pairs of headphones.

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