Weather and Seasons 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 – Weather and Seasons

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:

– “Weather and Seasons” Topic Poster for activating background knowledge and vocabulary

– Speaking Mats – partners, 2 students

– Speaking Mats – small group, 4 students

– Differentiated mats

– 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! Great for a wide range of grade levels.

🗨️ WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING

Reviews from verified TPT purchasers. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I have bought several speaking mat activities from Ms. Vibas and have never been let down. The photographs encourage my ELLs/ESL/ multilingual students to have discourse with each other use the content vocabulary.

I regret not purchasing these speaking mats sooner. I plan to collect them all.

I used these with my 2nd Grade EL group. They were doing a CKLA unit on Cycles in Nature, and this tied in perfectly. I loved how it provided the sentence stems and gave each partner a chance to talk. I had to model it twice, but my students did a really good job with it the second day we used it. I will be purchasing more of these to support my EL students and their language development.