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◆ SpeakForge Learn 🎓 Teach 🗺️ Adventure 🤝 Together 🔁 Review ⋯ More 🧭 My Journey Teach the Cast Some of SpeakForge’s cast are still learning. When you teach them, YOU learn it best — catch what they get wrong, then quiz them.
✕ Teach Hark You be the teacher — Hark is still learning. Helping Hark figure it out is the practice. (Hark's progress stays on this device; nothing is sent anywhere.)
🎓 In a minute you'll be the teacher. Get ready to teach Hark: real listening isn’t just staying quiet while you wait for your turn to talk.
Real listening means following the other person's whole point before you start building your reply.
Teach the connections
Show how the speaking ideas connect You've helped them one at a time. The real understanding is how the ideas CONNECT — teach that next.
Truss (argument structure — claim, then evidence, then reasoning) × Waypoint (signposting — the verbal roadmap ("first, next, finally"))
Your argument is perfectly organised on paper. Why do listeners still get lost without Waypoint?
A listener can't SEE your outline — Waypoint speaks Truss's structure aloud so they can follow the claim, evidence, and reasoning Signposting replaces the need for any real structure Structure and signposting are unrelated skills
Truss then says: “As long as my argument is well-structured, I don't need to signpost it.” — is that right?
No — listeners can't see the structure; Waypoint says it aloud so Truss's shape lands Right, good structure needs no signposting
The link: Truss builds the shape; Waypoint makes the shape hearable.
Build the argument, then announce its map.
Hark (active listening — listen all the way through) × Mosaic (building on others — "you said X, and building on that…")
Why can't you do Mosaic's "building on what Sam said" if you spent Sam's turn planning your own reply?
Building on an idea requires having heard it — Mosaic depends on Hark's listening You can build on ideas you didn't hear by guessing Listening and contributing are opposite, unrelated skills
Hark then says: “I'll plan my point while others talk, then jump in — building on them without really listening.” — is that right?
No — Mosaic needs Hark: build on what you ACTUALLY heard, not a guess made while planning Right, plan over others' turns
The link: listening comes first; building on others is what you do with what you heard.
Hear it fully, then build on it.
Capstone — give one talk + discussion together Three moves of a strong talk. Bring in the cast member for each.
Organise your point: claim, then evidence, then reasoning. Who?
Who do you bring in?
Truss — claim, proof, why Pose — posture and stance Easel — visual aids
Guide listeners with 'first, next, finally'. Who?
Who do you bring in?
Waypoint — the verbal roadmap Pitch — voice projection Volley — Q&A
In discussion, add to a classmate's point: 'building on what Sam said…'. Who?
Who do you bring in?
Mosaic — synthesising the discussion Truss — the argument skeleton Usher — turn-taking
The synthesis: a clear structure, signposted aloud, then woven into others' ideas — that's a talk that persuades AND connects.
Structure, signpost, build on — a talk that lands.
Try it in the speaking tools →
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Font Default OpenDyslexic Book
Reading tools Reading ruler Focus mode Read aloud Bigger tiles
Motion & sound No motion Sound off
Game look Usual Bigger and calmer
Same ideas with a younger band's look: bigger type and buttons, a rounder font, slower motion. For any child who wants it.
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