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Some ideas we considered to promote oral language development include:

1. Story circles: Allow children to sit in small groups and share personal stories to encourage communication and peer support.

2. Add humour to the classroom: Start the morning with a "joke of the day". Give each child a chance to share their joke.

3. Use the talking stick (or maybe the talking beanbag, so the talking stick doesn't become the whack'em stick) to provide children with a chance to have an opportunity to talk, with the class focusing on them.

4. Play vocalization games using sounds, not words, such as imitating animal sounds or practicing musical notes. This provides an opportunity to participate for ESL learners.

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Our group decided to do a rhythming game where students have to keep the beat using their hands.  Students will have to use rhythming words at the same time but can't use the same word twice. This is a good way to incorporate multiple curriculum areas into one activity. We think students will enjoy this activity because they can make the activity into a game to see who rhythm can the most words together without losing their rhythm. We would like to use this in a grade 2-3 classroom.

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Group 5 (Sarah L, Sarah M, Rebecca, Alexandra)

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Group 5 (Sarah L, Sarah M, Rebecca, Alexandra)

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Poetry book- After reading a poetry book aloud as a class have each student makes a page with a poem and a descriptive image. Could be used as a classroom resource

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The Semantics of Animals  - Team 2: Yodit, Erika, Emma, and Brad

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The Semantics of Animals  - Team 2: Yodit, Erika, Emma, and Brad

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Looking at semantics:

Get the class to mimic the sound's of animals presented in a book and increase difficulty for comprehension stopping at a stage by assessing the class room.

- What sound does the elephant make?
- What sound does a quetzal make?
- What sound does a squirrel make?

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Our Ideas:
- Simon Says (promotes all aspects of oral language)
- Phonetic Word Wall somewhere in the classroom
- Write the Room (20 words hidden around the room and the students need to go around looking for the words)
- Read-Alouds (students reading to each other, or the teacher reading a story and the students retell the story in pairs)
- Interactive story telling: students act out a story that is being told to them (to predict what might happen next or act out a part they like
- Singing (best for primary) - also good for transitions and behaviour management

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Group 5 (Sarah L, Sarah M, Rebecca, Alexandra)

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Group 5 (Sarah L, Sarah M, Rebecca, Alexandra)

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Pen Pals- have the students use mixed media to communicate with their pen pals. This could include traditional letters, Flipgrid videos, or emails.

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Classroom Dictionary

Having each student share their favourite word and then discuss the meaning, why they enjoy it and how they say it (pronunciation, how you say it, the emotion behind the word)

Adding words for different seasons, celebrations, discussions that are important to the class.

Incorporating a section of "bad" words and why we shouldn't be using them in our conversations. Not including swear words or words that they should not be using, but rather words that could be discriminatory or used to hurt others and teaching them why we shouldn't be using them rather than just telling them not to.

Having a "polite" word section where students learn better ways in which to talk to others. This could promote better communication with others as they are promoting kinder speak.

Section on words that are hard to spell or a different spelling (i.e. silent K in the word knight). This will help the students remember that spelling or pronunciation and they will have a visual to go back to when they may forget or struggle.

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Our Ideas - Lauren F, Rebecca E, Veronica B, Erin M 

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Our Ideas - Lauren F, Rebecca E, Veronica B, Erin M 

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- Show & Tell of Favourite Book (Have students bring a favourite book from home or choose one from school - becomes a hybrid of show/tell activity and book talk at the same time)

- Classroom Word Wall (can explore key words from books, etc.) Well-loved resource from our past classrooms

- Readers Theatre

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Ideas to Promote Oral Language (Emily P, Emily M, Katie, Sheehan)

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Ideas to Promote Oral Language (Emily P, Emily M, Katie, Sheehan)

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1. Questions of the day: At the beginning of class to promote discussion. (How was your weekend? What are you going to be for halloween?) It's a lesson, without explicitly being a lesson.

2. Write 3-5 sentences on a flip chart, and leave some words out or spell some words wrong. It's a game: what words are missing? What needs to be corrected?

3. Structured Improvisation games

4. Sing-along: put on songs from Frozen (etc.)

5. I-spy (Vocab expansion. Expressive and Receptive language. The teacher can place items around the room that are relevant to the upcoming lesson!)

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Group 5 (Sarah L, Sarah M, Rebecca, Alexandra)

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Group 5 (Sarah L, Sarah M, Rebecca, Alexandra)

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Reading buddies- (bidirectional learning) Read a rhyming story together and then come up with their own rhymes together. Could do the same thing with poetry or other types stories.