(L277) School Readiness Oral Language and Pre-Literacy Essentials

This 31-page no-prep resource is designed to help children understand and use simple 'what' questions in context, including high frequency vocabulary, sorted into some early categories (including furniture, bugs, food, clothing, eating utensils, tools, musical instruments and wild animals) to stimulate semantic language development.

This 33-page no-prep resource is designed to help children understand and use simple 'who' questions in context. Including people working in common occupations, and some well-known fairy tale characters.

This 45-page no-prep resource is designed to help children understand and use simple 'where' questions in context.

Set in an engaging world of fairy tales, this resource is designed to highlight the meaning of 'where' with the support of familiar concrete storybook locations (e.g. a house, forest, cave, castle, hill, river, and hill).

This no-preparation 46-page pack is designed to help students of all abilities to learn the strategy of semantic feature analysis, using high frequency school-related nouns. To make it accessible to all students, we have chosen easily pictured objects you will find in most schools.

With a scripted introduction, a colourful scaffold, and 35 examples, this pack is designed to give students plenty of structured practice describing common objects. Once completed, students can use the scaffold to describe any object, including curriculum specific nouns.

Verbs are all about actions. A great way to teach high frequency verbs in sentences is with pictures that move: GIFs! The 12 verbs featured are: run, walk, read, fall, stop, sit, draw, knock, throw, help, play, and kick.

In this resource, we include GIFs of children demonstrating high frequency verbs in action. To play the GIFs, copy the slides onto your Google Drive.

In this 22-page no-prep pack, we target a Blank's Level 2 comprehension task. Specifically, we ask students to name the key functions of common items. This work can also help children to classify things and to build their semantic knowledge by helping them classify objects by functions. It's also a nifty verb work out.

In this 15-page no-prep pack, we have selected complex sentence structures frequently used in instructions, including sentences containing the subordinating conjunctions "if", "when", "while", "when", "don't/unless", "don't until", "before" and "after". To help students, we have sorted objects semantically. To practice, we have selected items based on those used in the student's real world (e.g. in the classroom).

Barrier tasks are flexible activities that help students to demonstrate functional skills requiring clear communication. In this 28-page pack, the barrier stimulus worksheets are designed to help participants to develop their vocabulary and language structures using 10 familiar scenes. The pack includes instructions, and tokens to use with the worksheets.

This 18-page pack is designed to help you assess whether your preschooler student has the basic skills to orientate themselves to space: to know where they are.

Research tells us that many children with language learning difficulties struggle to ask questions the right way. Instead of asking “Can I have a strawberry?” or “Can I go to the park?” these children might say, “I can have a strawberry?” or “Go to the park can?”.

This No Prep “Can I ?” Pack is designed to help children to ask their “Can” questions the right way.

In this video modelling resource, we introduce high frequency grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs) following a sequence aligned with the popular Sounds Write synthetics phonics program. We introduce the GPCs in small groups, starting with .

In this 21-page resource, we reference 12 excellent picture books we use regularly in speech and language therapy for preschoolers, with lots of practical tips to make reading more interactive and fun for you and your child. For each book, we include specific vocabulary suggestions and preschooler-friendly definitions.