Question Starters | Literal Questioning | Past Information

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.

PREMIUM RESOURCE | Studying the Signs of the Zodiac and their personality traits is a great way to increase student’s vocabulary of character words. A comprehensive resource with Zodiac name and date cards, character traits charts, Speaking and Listening question cards, ESOL speaking frame charts and teacher information sheet linking the Zodiac study to reading and writing.

SMART RESOURCE | A set of twenty-five question cards for students to practise the language of geometry by questioning one another about their 2D shape knowledge .The resource is suitable for linking Oral Language with Mathematics, and can be played using a Kagan Structure called ‘Quiz, Quiz, Trade’ (instruction card included). Included are a 2D Shape colour poster and a black and white activity sheet for students to label, a set of shape vocabulary cards to help students to use the correct words to describe a 2D shape and an answer sheet for the quiz. This resource links with Geometry Vocabulary Ref 3-00295

SMART RESOURCE | The speaking frames enable the student to use the language of Mathematics to describe Mathematical outcomes. The eight sentence starters help students to establish a clear and concise response when speaking about Mathematical understandings and strategies. The cards are suitable for individual or small group sharing.