Animals and Habitats 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 skills and vocabulary 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 and visuals provide support to beginning and intermediate level students. This unit’s topic – Animals and Habitats

The Speaking Mats are formatted for partners and include 2 differentiated language levels. Level 1 is for beginners (ELP 1-2) and Level 2 for intermediate students (ELP 2-3).

PLUS – Six “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:

– Essential Vocabulary – pre-teach the terms: habitat, diet, survive, adapt

– “Animal Habitats” Topic Poster to activate background knowledge and build vocabulary

– 4 Speaking Mats – 2 levels, formatted for partner talks and small group talks

– 36 engaging photos of animals and habitats

– 6 “Roll & Talk” Mats with 24 question card prompts

Habitats included:

– ocean

– desert

– savanna and grassland

– forest

– arctic tundra

– pond

Get students talking! Great for a wide range of grade levels.

🗨️ WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING

Reviews from verified TPT purchasers. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

As a new ESL teacher, these mats were the perfect companion to my animals unit, especially in getting my ML learners to talk! The photographs and graphic organizers used were engaging for my students and they thought this was fun!

First, the real life photographs are beautiful! The children LOVE them! Secondly, there is so much to support speaking about animals and habitats so that all learners are successful! Lastly, I appreciate the different options that are available for both habitats and animals so that student interest is kept.

I absolutely love the speaking mats that Kristen has created! The photos are high quality and engaging, and being able to have those structures in place for conversations using academic vocabulary is priceless. My students love it when I bring these out! I will definitely purchase other speaking mats for more topics!