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Here is a Padlet for us to be able to share oral language resources that we come across to use in our classrooms. Please feel free to add ideas that you come across. You can add photos, videos, documents, and explanations.

Natalie :)

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Teeth - short film. Use a table with three columns - Setting, Characters, What is happening? Ask students to only listen (not watch) the video and think about those three topics, writing down their thoughts. Then watch the video to compare what they thought was happening to what was actually happening.

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Talking Groups Poster from The Oral Language website. To be used when implementing different groupings in the classroom.

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Talking Groups Poster - explanation and information from The Oral Language website.

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Wordles

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Wordles! - Home of word fun, word puzzles and word play!

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Comprehensive list of website links for The Writing Book and The Oral Language Book.

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Scaffold to use for word work activities.

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Use North, East, South and West to represent 4 different buddies for each student. Use the compass to select different buddies for different purposes e.g. North - friend, East - mixed ability, South - same/similar ability, West - mixed gender. The Oral Language Book resource PM12 'Compass Partners' provides a handout that students can keep to remind them of their Compass Buddies.

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Variety of talking strips available in The Oral Language Book (PM38-47) that prompt and guide conversation you would like your students to have. They could also be used for Minute of Fame/Show and Tell by cutting the strip up to facilitate the presentation.

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Discussed the importance of providing students with thinking time before they pair with their partner. Once they have been given time to think, they pair up and discuss. Prompt them when it is time for the other person to speak - something like a high-five could signify the speaker swap. Share time can be what a student shared themselves in the pair or you could also ask students to share what their partner said to promote listening skills. You may also call upon students at random using name sticks so that you're not only asking for students with their hand up in order to create accountability. Sharing isn't required every time.

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To promote listening skills, students can be asked to take notes based on what they're listening to. You could use this when students watch a video, listen to explicit teaching/modeling, think, pair, record or even when you group students in a jigsaw to share their learning about a topic (great for inquiry). Students could use a graphic organiser to guide their note taking. Graphic organiser resources are available in The Oral Language Book.

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Use a microphone or other object to signify who the speaker is. Sit in a circle so that students are facing one another. Pass the object to someone else to elaborate on discussion. You could use a question stem from the The Oral Language Book, a conversation starter, statement about something.

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You could use statements or comments rather than questions to promote a conversation at a deeper level rather than simply asking questions for answers.

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Great way to fill in 10 minutes or so.

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Vocabulary Improvement Games & Classroom Vocabulary Games - Flocabulary

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After all the day's planned lessons have been completed, it is not uncommon to have a few minutes to spare before the bell rings. Or, sometimes you need to divide up a long lesson with a quick, energetic break. Use these time slots to invigorate students and enhance their vocabulary comprehension with mini games!

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The Noisy Classroom

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the online home of speaking & listening across the curriculum

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Website that has some language and word games/information

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Contextualises words into a sentence.