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.

SMART RESOURCES | An extension of the news telling session for older students. The resource includes organisation, learning goals, reflection chart, management chart and bland name cards.

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.

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.