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 | 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 | Question starters help students to develop questions which reflect on the types of thinking they are using. They help the student to think and act critically about information. The seven question starters ask inferential questions focused on possibility.