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 | 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 | 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.