Speaking and Listening | Social Convertions | Charts

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.

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.

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.