Speaking Mats Bundle, Set 1 | Oral Language Activities for English Learners

Description

Looking for an engaging way to get your ESL / ELL students speaking with confidence? This ESL Speaking Mats Bundle provides structured, differentiated oral language activities that build vocabulary, speaking, and listening skills all year long.

WHAT THIS RESOURCE DOES

This Speaking Mats bundle gets students talking by asking and answering targeted questions using picture prompts and question cards. Sentence stems provide support to beginning and intermediate level students.

Students talk in pairs or small groups by asking and answering targeted questions using picture prompts and scaffolded responses. ELLs successfully engage in meaningful conversations through:
✔ Visual supports
✔ Question prompts
✔ Sentence frames
✔ Structured routines

WHAT’S INCLUDED

This bundle includes 6 complete Speaking Mats sets:

• Community
• School
• Needs vs. Wants
• Weather & Seasons
• Food & Culture
• Animals & Habitats

Each set includes:

✔ Background building poster
✔ Differentiated question prompts and sentence frames (ELP Levels 1–4)
✔ Real-life photographs to build vocabulary
✔ “Roll & Talk” mats (an interactive dice-based speaking activity)

These ESL speaking activities are flexible and easy to implement.

BONUS 👉🏽 The photographs also make excellent warm-up activities to any ELD lesson. Just post a picture and start talking about it!

DIFFERENTIATION (WIDA-ALIGNED SUPPORT)

This resource is designed to support a range of language proficiency levels:

Beginning (ELP 1–2):

• Visual support + simple sentence frames
• Pointing, naming, and short responses

Developing (ELP 3–4):

• Expanded responses
• Academic vocabulary
• Complete sentence production

Perfect for supporting WIDA speaking and listening expectations and helping students prepare for tasks similar to the WIDA ACCESS Speaking domain.

WHY TEACHERS LOVE SPEAKING MATS

⭐ Builds confidence and increases student participation
⭐ Provides structured support for ALL learners
⭐ Uses high-quality, real-life photographs
⭐ Encourages meaningful, content-based conversations

BUNDLE & SAVE

Save money by purchasing the bundle!
A full year of structured speaking activities in one easy-to-use bundle.

PERFECT FOR:

✔ ESL / ELL teachers
✔ ELD small group instruction
✔ Newcomer support
✔ Grades 2–6 classrooms
✔ Speaking & listening practice