Compliments | Words of Encouragement | Cards

SMART RESOURCE | The Speaking and Listening resource enables the teacher to easily organise the oral language with the class. Through speaking with individual, partner or groups the student can explore ways in which to express feelings and emotions while also developing a vocabulary to describe and answer questions about a chosen topic. The Newstime resource includes students Learning Intentions and Success Criteria, a Today’s Class Management Board together with a variety of Newstime focus cards. The resource is presented with a colour background and a white background. New to the resource is a student Self-Reflection Assessment sheet to assess their presentation against the Learning Intentions and Success Criteria; also include is a blank Self-Assessment sheet.

SMART RESOURCE | Activity Sharing is very important to young learners and it is a great starting place for oral language presentation.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 the Activity Sharing time. Also included is a Teacher Assessment sheet in rubric form, Student Self-Assessment sheet using smiley faces to score their outcome and an Activity Sharing certificate to celebrate the successful Activity Sharing time.

SMART RESOURCE | A Weather chart and cards for recording and discussing the daily weather. The resource has a temperature and clothing card to promote the wearing of suitable layers of clothing according to the daily temperature. Also included is a Learning Intention, Success Criteria, Reflection and Next step… chart.

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.