12 prompt sheets strategically designed to support adult-child interactions in all areas of provision during play. Tailored to children’s communication levels, they encourage appropriate and meaningful conversations, fostering language development and engagement. They are a versatile and beautifully created resource for all early years classrooms!
Reading, Writing, Maths, Construction, Small World, Domestic Role Play, Painting, Creative Workshop, Malleable, Sand, Water and Mud Kitchen
Key features:
Differentiated Questions:
Each sheet provides questions suited to the developmental level of the child - based on research by Blank, Rose and Berlin (1978) - and the area in which they are playing.
Versatile Use:
Ideal for student teachers, temporary staff, and full-time practitioners, ensuring consistency in language-rich interactions.
Classroom and Home:
Perfect for classroom use, but can also be shared with parents to encourage similar interactions at home.
By integrating these sheets, educators can maintain a language-focused environment while ensuring that everyone - regardless of their familiarity with the children - can contribute to their development. They are a valuable tool for teachers looking to improve communication and play-based learning.
Introducing Seasons Talk Cards with Real Images from Little Learners Hub, designed using the Blank language scheme to support children’s language development through interactive questioning. This resource features real-life images of the four seasons. Each image is paired with 4 stages of questioning developed by Marion Blank, progressing from simple, concrete tasks like naming to more abstract tasks like justifying.
The stages include:
Naming
Describing
Re-telling
Justifying
This resource encourages children to engage in conversations, express their ideas, and expand their vocabulary, while providing adults with the right language to support these discussions. Perfect for fostering critical thinking and communication skills in young learners,children with special educational needs and English as an additional language learners.
Introducing Diwali Colourful Semantics – Who, Doing, What from Little Learners Hub, a festive resource designed to help children build sentences while learning about the Diwali celebration. Using real images of Diwali activities and the Colourful Semantics approach, this pack focuses on sentence construction with prompts for:
Who? (Subject)
Doing? (Verb)
What? (Object)
This resource provides an interactive way for children to learn about Diwali while practicing sentence structure, helping them express themselves more clearly and understand this important cultural celebration. Perfect for classrooms celebrating cultural diversity or for use at home!