Five pages to teach how we talk together. Page 1 is a poster of five rules, each with an animal to remember it by. Pages 2 and 3 are 16 talk cards in six kinds, each kind its own color and name. Page 4 is eight sentence frames for saying a whole sentence, and page 5 a self-check with three faces to circle.
Read the poster together and act out each rule. Give each pair a few talk cards before partner talk, and model one card a day: hold it up, say it, and praise children who use it. Keep the sentence frames handy for share time, and use the self-check after a class talk.
Play a talking game at dinner: take turns, and use a card like Can you say more? or I agree. Ask your child to tell you about their day in whole sentences.
A rules poster and talk cards that help young children take turns, listen and keep a conversation going. Children hold up a card and say it, from I agree and Can you say more? to whole sentence frames, then check how they talked and listened.
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