Activity-based Sharing | Speaking Frames | Beginning Learners

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.

PREMUIN RESOURCE | Oral narrative engages students in describing a character, role playing the character and through discussion accepting and using ideas and feedback for the role play. The resource includes a Character Role Play explanation, three role play scenarios for the students to enact, character masks, (to be laminated and mounted on a short wooden rod) learning goal and a management chart and cards. This is an excellent resource to link with narrative 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 social convention charts present the learning goal and the success criteria for a polite speaker and an active listener. A first rate resource for student self – assessment.