Printable TeachTalk ‘Farm Animals’ themed activity plan to support and develop speech, language and communication skills in Early Years children. Can be used in early years settings, nurseries, reception classes, childminders, playgroups or in the home. Great for all children including those with SEND and English as an Additional Language (EAL). Particularly helpful for children with delayed speech and language skills including those already referred for speech and language therapy. The activity plan outlines how to use this familiar and popular early years theme to provide a fun, interactive and play based session covering: -attention and listening -receptive language (understanding) -expressive language (talking) -vocabulary -play skills -turn-taking -memory skills The sessions can be adapted for different individuals or groups of children. All resources required are listed and widely available in most good early years settings. The activities within the session can be mix and matched and used again and again. Great for re-inforcing vocabulary and early concepts. Contains: -complete TeachTalk Farm Animals themed session plan -list of suggested resources -simple ideas for ‘stepping up’ or ‘stepping down’ activities for differentiation -Top Tips for delivering the session A4 size Suitable for EYFS including children with SEND I have been an Early Years teacher for many years and found that I was working with increasing numbers of children with speech and language needs e.g. difficulties understanding simple instructions, limited vocabulary. I needed to find a way of meeting the needs of several children in one group activity which was still fun and engaging and didn’t feel like ‘therapy’ sessions. And so the TeachTalk sessions were born! Fun activities based on favourite and familiar themes which could be easily adapted to incorporate the needs of several children.

The TeachTalk Farm Animals Enhancement pack fully complements the TeachTalk Farm Animals Session Plan available on the TES site. This pack contains high quality images and resources which can be used to get your TeachTalk Farm Animals Session up and running straight away! Perfect to turn your TeachTalk Farm Animals Session into a ‘portable’ resource and to ensure that you always have a full resource pack handy if practical resources are unavailable. The images can be laminated for use over and over again-ideal to send home with parents for extra TeachTalk support for your little ones!

Printable TeachTalk ‘Food’ themed activity plan to support and develop speech, language and communication skills in Early Years children. Can be used in early years settings, nurseries, reception classes, childminders, playgroups or in the home. Great for all children including those with SEND and English as an Additional Language (EAL). Particularly helpful for children with delayed speech and language skills including those already referred for speech and language therapy. The activity plan outlines how to use this familiar and popular early years theme to provide a fun, interactive and play based session covering: -attention and listening -receptive language (understanding) -expressive language (talking) -vocabulary -play skills -turn-taking -memory skills The sessions can be adapted for different individuals or groups of children. All resources required are listed and widely available in most good early years settings. The activities within the session can be mix and matched and used again and again. Great for re-inforcing vocabulary and early concepts. Contains: -complete TeachTalk Food themed session plan -list of suggested resources -simple ideas for ‘stepping up’ or ‘stepping down’ activities for differentiation -Top Tips for delivering the session A4 size Suitable for EYFS including children with SEND I have been an Early Years teacher for many years and found that I was working with increasing numbers of children with speech and language needs e.g. difficulties understanding simple instructions, limited vocabulary. I needed to find a way of meeting the needs of several children in one group activity which was still fun and engaging and didn’t feel like ‘therapy’ sessions. And so the TeachTalk sessions were born! Fun activities based on favourite and familiar themes which could be easily adapted to incorporate the needs of several children.

This is a digital journal based on the new DfE ‘My Activity Passport’. This version includes the suggested activities for Reception Class. It enables teachers (and parents/carers ) to easily and creatively record, display and celebrate children taking part in the suggested activities. It also allows for additional/different activities to be included and for photos of children taking part in the activites at home with their families to be uploaded. The digital journal is fully interactive meaning that photos and text can be quickly added and is so simple to fill that even the youngest children can add to the pages. There are links added to take users quickly and easily to selected pages when filling or viewing the passport. There is step-by-step guidance within the passport showing how additional or duplicate pages can be added in order to personalise it eg by using different types of backing paper pages. Adding or duplicating pages also means that a single passport can be used flexibly eg for an individual child, for a small group of children or even for a full class. You will be sent the passport as a PDF file which can then be used on an iPad using an app such as GOODNOTES which enables you to use the clickable links and to annotate using a Stylus. You will then be able to add handwritten notes, captions and add extra creative touches as demonstrated in the video. It is also possible to use without a stylus, adding text from your ipad keyboard. (Alternatively you can be sent the passport as a PowerPoint presentation which also enables the links to work and for the passport including added photos and text to be displayed to a wider audience such as in a school assembly or on an interactive whiteboard- for this version, please select the Powerpoint resource in my shop)