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100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers

Oracy

Topsy Page Alan Howe Dan Booth-Howe

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English
Bloomsbury Education
15 January 2026
No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you! The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers. Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas to inspire and engage all learners.

Combining clear, practical advice and tried-and-tested strategies, 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Oracy is the essential handbook to making every child in your class a confident communicator.

Oracy experts Topsy Page and Alan Howe present 100 easy-to-implement ideas directly from the classroom, engaging everyone from the ‘quiet student’ in your class to students with SEND or EAL in a variety of pair, group and whole-class talk activities and approaches. Discover inspiring yet simple strategies to get your students talking as well as ways to improve your own questioning, Teacher Talk and communication.

Oracy is increasingly thought to be a core skill to be taught at school, key for improving personal outcomes and for future success. Clear communication is crucial for developing critical thinking skills, confidence and attainment across the curriculum. Including tips for teachers, talk prompts, and ideas, this collection of tips, games and activities links directly to the National Curriculum and offers strategies to improve oracy for individual students, classes and the whole school.

Written by experts in their field, the 100 Ideas books offer practical ideas for busy teachers. They include step-by-step instructions, teaching tips and taking it further ideas. Follow the conversation online using #100Ideas.
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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Education
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   160g
ISBN:   9781801997331
ISBN 10:   1801997330
Series:   100 Ideas for Teachers
Pages:   144
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Topsy Page is a qualified teacher, former Assistant Head, Writing Lead and SLE. She is passionate about transforming classrooms using oracy and has worked with schools to develop a culture of high-quality dialogue and reasoning across the curriculum through training, coaching and consultancy. She is an associate member of Oracy Cambridge and the author of 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Oracy. Alan Howe is an associate member of Oracy Cambridge. He has worked for over forty years at the forefront of educational change and improvement in the UK as a Local Authority Adviser and Inspector, leading initiatives for both primary and secondary phases in literacy and English teaching, assessment, and teaching and learning.

Reviews for 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Oracy

An essential guide for embedding oracy across the curriculum. Grounded in research and rich with strategies, it supports every teacher to build confident, articulate learners. -- Maliki Konteh Saidy * Head of MFL, linkedin.com/in/maliki-konteh-saidy-b7061b134 * A masterful account that simplifies the processes, this excellent companion is streamlined and considered. The reader is invited to dip in and out often. A single page will transform a classroom, placing listening alongside speaking. It is accessible, inclusive, with engaging ideas and multiple extensions. -- Barb Fitzgerald * Education Consultant, Voice Coach, School Principal * An engaging, thoughtful and inspiring collection of strategies to add to my teacher tool kit. I can’t wait to include some of these new ideas in my lessons. Certainly a resource I’ll have to hand on my desk during planning sessions! -- Carrie Walshe * Houseparent and teacher of English * Alan and Topsy have managed to condense the essence of oracy within secondary schools into a single, easy to pick up and use book. Every teacher should have a copy. -- Craig D’Cunha * Executive Headteacher *


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