Focus: book reviews
Use the Partner ping-pong activity from The Oral Language Book (page 41) to support students to generate ideas or vocabulary on a topic.
Instructions:
In pairs, students have turns at saying one thing each. They continue until one person cannot think of a new idea.
Topics could include:
Focus: book reviews
Includes: two elaboration prompts posters
Focus: supporting students to explain their thinking and add detail to their ideas
Focus: using digital resources for shared reading with middle and senior students