Independent Newstelling | 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.

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 | The colourful visual charts illustrate and model a speaking framework for an engaging conversation. The charts include: greetings, openings, checking by the speaker and listener, talking about a topic, changing a topic and ending a conversation.

SMART RESOURCE | A visual way of demonstrating the simple art of conversation to young children. Speaking frames in the form of speech bubbles give students examples of greeting and fare welling people in a polite and friendly manner. The resource includes a set of black and white student sheets with a blank speech bubble. Students complete the speech bubble in their own words. Also there is a blank face with speech bubble; the students can draw themselves using polite conversation. Display the students work in a manner that forms a conversation.