Includes: a lesson plan, YouTube video link, student planning sheet and exemplar
Focus: structuring and ordering events in a narrative (story)
Conversation prompts are a great way to reduce teacher-talk in the classroom. Janie Patroni from St Leonard’s Road School in Auckland has conversation starter stems attached to the side of her whiteboard easel. Janie directs students to a particular prompt during discussions by saying 'Pink bubble' or 'Purple bubble'.
Refer to PM14 of The Oral Language Book for examples of conversation prompts.
Includes: a lesson plan, YouTube video link, student planning sheet and exemplar
Focus: structuring and ordering events in a narrative (story)
Includes: a lesson plan, two exemplars (written and published)
Focus: activating memories and writing descriptively
Focus: writing an introduction to a narrative
