SPEAKING and LISTENING

SMART RESOURCE | Over a hundred words and phrases of encouragement for students to praise one another’s efforts. The resource outlines the best way to give and receive a compliment. It includes an activity to engage students and teachers to practise using a ‘go to’ set of compliments. The cards have been colour coded in five sets of twenty cards. The Words of Encouragement can then be introduced in different sessions of learning or when the need arises. The image tagging and different colour borders helps with organisation and enables an easy sorting of the cards. An excellent resource for Oral Language and Behaviour Management.

SMART RESOURCE | The colourful visual charts illustrate and model a speaking framework for an engaging conversation. The charts include: greetings, openings, checking by the speaker and listener, talking about a topic, changing a topic and ending a conversation.

SMART RESOURCES | An excellent resource to develop conversation. The resource has five charts with questions prompting students to participate in conversation about themselves, family, home, activities and interests. There are a further twenty cards with the prompt questions; these can be used to engage students using Kagan Structure- ‘Quiz, Quiz, Trade’ (instruction card included) or in other oral activities. There are additional comment cards to encourage students to add detail to the conversation. A first rate resource for ESL students.

FREE | A visual way of demonstrating the simple art of conversation to young children. Speaking frames in the form of speech bubbles give students examples of greeting and fare welling people in a polite and friendly manner.

FREE | Two communication charts present a check list of questions for a good speaker and a good listener. An excellent resource for student self - assessment.

FREE | The social convention charts present the learning goal and the success criteria for a polite speaker and an active listener. A first rate resource for student self – assessment.

SMART RESOURCE | The resource includes charts which indicate when it is appropriate to be formal or informal when speaking to others. It also has a ‘How does the talking sound?’ chart giving a grammatical framework for the types of speaking. These scenarios are followed by discussion activity cards asking When… What… How do we speak to different people? A first rate resource for class and ESL students.

FREE | The activity cards give every day scenarios for different social conventions. The students discuss what they would say in the given situation.

SMART RESOURCE | The newstime resource includes students learning goals for speaking and listening, a today’s session class management chart together with a variety of newstime organisation cards. The resource enables the teacher to easily organise the sharing time with class members. Through speaking and listening with individual, partner or groups the student explores ways in which to express feelings and emotions while also developing a vocabulary to describe and answer questions about a chosen topic.

FREE | The News charts include the prompts:-when? who? where? what? why? and feelings to assist in the planning of news. The prompt words can also help with the asking of questions about personal experiences in the planning of writing.

SMART RESOURCE | The resource offers different ways of organising news and a variety of activities during the news session. A management chart is also included.

SMART RESOURCES | An extension of the news telling session for older students. The resource includes organisation, learning goals, reflection chart, management chart and bland name cards.

FREE | The resource includes two prompt question charts – ‘Tell us what you made’ and ‘Tell us how you made it’ to assist the speaker and the audience in an activity sharing time.

SMART RESOURCE | Four charts highlight the learning goals and success criteria for activity-based sharing. They outline introducing and describing the activity; explaining and reflecting on the process and product. To engage the audience there are a set of question prompts to encourage further information.

SMART RESOURCE | The chart and cards assist with the organisation of the Activity-based Sharing sessions. The resource includes ten different ways to share activities with the class. The organisation is grouped into informal sharing, structured sharing, independent sharing and formal sharing. The ‘Today’s sharing…’ card can be enlarged and laminated then the organisation cards and your student names can be attached for daily sharing. This resource gives lots of variety to your daily oral language sessions.

FREE | Discussion cards for partner conversation. These prompt cards focus on exchanging, sharing, recounting and expressing ideas.

FREE | Discussion cards for partner conversation. These prompt cards focus on self-esteem, describing, exploring, swapping stories and jokes as well as using your imagination.

SMART RESOURCE | The resource outlines the roles students play in small groups during discussion time. The roles of encourager, reporter, manager, recorder, collector and group member include a job description and several verbal prompts to assist a student in that particular role. The resource includes charts for display and small cards for each member of the group.

SMART RESOURCE | A set of sixty-two words to prompt thinking, speaking, listening and discussion. These words are suitable for one minute impromptu talks. Included in the resource are learning intentions and a fun poster for an unplanned report.

PREMUIN RESOURCE | Oral narrative engages students in describing a character, role playing the character and through discussion accepting and using ideas and feedback for the role play. The resource includes a Character Role Play explanation, three role play scenarios for the students to enact, character masks, (to be laminated and mounted on a short wooden rod) learning goal and a management chart and cards. This is an excellent resource to link with narrative reading and writing.