The Oral Language Kit provides varied activity-oriented materials for developing, enriching, and refining children's language development. The materials and lessons can be used to focus on developing children's language for social communication, inquiry, and problem solving.
- Poetry Big Book, 6 small copies, digital version on DVD, audio on CD
- Wordless Books
- Conversation Cards
- Felt Puppets
- Oral Language Guide
- Oral Language Assessment Scale
- Oral Language Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Checklist
- Detailed Lesson Plans using the Puppets
- Oral Language Games with variations and BLMs
- Lesson Plans for each component
Poetry Big Book
Nine songs and poems intended to be sung and/or chanted aloud. The audio features songs and music-only tracks to allow students to create their own version of the songs. Digital version for use on interactive whiteboards.
With these tools, you can develop awareness of the rhythms and sounds of language, encourage playful language activity, and focus on comprehension, careful listening, and phonological and phonemic understanding.
Wordless Books
These two wordless (or nearly wordless) picture books can be used to model oral storytelling, as well as appropriate vocabulary and language structures. You can encourage active listening, and promote an understanding of story structure.
Tabby: A Story in Pictures Fiction: Narrative � Wordless Picture Book
Yikes!!! Fiction: Narrative � Wordless Picture Book
Felt Puppets
20 puppets for dramatic retellings, story inventions, and role-playing.
Conversation Cards (print and digital)
18 large-format (17" x 13.5"), double-sided colour cards (36 images) featuring photos, diagrams, simple maps, cartoons, children's drawings, paintings, and picture puzzles.