How Well Do I Communicate?

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 RESOURCE | 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. The resource includes a set of black and white student sheets with a blank speech bubble. Students complete the speech bubble in their own words. Also there is a blank face with speech bubble; the students can draw themselves using polite conversation. Display the students work in a manner that forms a conversation.

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 RESOURCE | The activity cards give every day scenarios for different social conventions. The students discuss what they would say in a given situation when greeting, inviting, asking permission and apologising. The resource includes two sets of cards- colour and white background. These can be used for display or student cards. There is an activity sheet with speech bubbles for the students to complete in a conversation style and blank cards for writing further scenarios. These could be collaboratively written with the class and added to the collection of cards.