Partner Discussion Ideas 1

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 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.

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.