Focus: using picture books to support students to develop interesting setting descriptions
Talking groups – Poster
Collaborating with different students is stimulating and supportive and offers students opportunities to talk, share and reflect on their learning.
Purpose: Use the poster to establish different groupings in your classroom.
Talking groups – More information
This document contains further information about each of the groupings included in the poster.
Purpose: use this document in conjunction with the poster to explicitly teach each of the groupings so that students can easily form these different groups during the day.
Check out The Oral Language Book for more ideas about organising talk in the classroom.
Focus: using picture books to support students to develop interesting setting descriptions
Includes: a Partner-check card for junior students
Focus: editing writing
Includes: a lesson plan and student exemplar poems about mum and dad
Focus: poetry