Community Speaking Mats | Oral Language Activities for English Learners

Description

Speaking Activities for the ESL classroom – Are you looking for structured activities to build oral language with your English learners? These differentiated Speaking Mats are designed to get students talking by asking and answering targeted questions using picture prompts and question cards. Sentence stems provide support to beginning and intermediate level students. This unit’s topic – COMMUNITY.

The Speaking Mats are formatted for partners AND small groups (4 students). Each format comes in 2 differentiated levels.

Four “Roll & Talk” mats are also included! Your students will love “playing” and practicing their oral language skills with this fun activity.

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What’s Included:

– “Community” Topic Poster – activate background knowledge and vocabulary

– Speaking Mats – partners, 2 students

– Speaking Mats – small group, 4 students

– Differentiated Mats – level 1 and level 2

– 20 photo prompts of various people and activities found in a community

– PLUS – 4 “Roll & Talk” Mats with 16 question card prompts

Get students talking! This speaking activity is great for a wide range of grade levels.

🗨️ WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING

Reviews from verified TPT purchasers. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This is a high-quality product full of beautiful, real-life Photographs and sentence support for my English Language Learners to engage in strong speaking and listening skill development!

This is a great resource for students to have to get comfortable with speaking to each other and prepare for the NYSESLAT!

I have a difficult time finding great speaking activities for my students. These are perfect they provide great support and sentence starters WITH real photographs.