Small Group | Discussion Roles | Charts

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.

PREMIUM RESOURCE | The Bundle of question starters help students to think and act critically about information. By using differing endings for who, what, when, where, why and how, creates literal questions (present and past), inferential questions (possibility and probability) and extended question (prediction and imagination) about the information. The resource includes the three levels of thinking, while asking questions across the areas of event, situation, choice, person, reason, and means. This is an invaluable resource for critical thinking through all learning areas of the curriculum.

PREMIUM RESOURCE | Twenty-seven feeling word cards and twenty-six action cards create a multi-purpose resource for critical and creative Thinking, Speaking and Listening, and Writing. Two speaking frames (with instructions) are included to assist students with the expression of their feelings. All feeling and action cards have supporting illustrations which provide a valuable source for conversation. An excellent resource for ESL / ESOL / EAL studies! Feelings & Action List FEELING: angry bored clever concerned confused embarrassed excited friendly frightened happy healthy lonely lucky mean okay peaceful positive relaxed sad scared shocked shy sick silly sleepy surprised tired ACTION: agree blush celebrate cry disagree dance disapprove eat exercise flirt frown grin hug kiss laugh listen play quiet read sleep smile talk text type wink write

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.