Oral Language Teaching Resources
Help your students with oral language development this school year with activities, worksheets and more created by teachers to support student's speaking skills.
With activities developed by the teachers of the Teach Starter team to align to Common Core curriculum and editable resources you can adapt to suit your students' needs, this collection has everything you need to help students become adept communicators!
Explore basic conversational skills, teaching your students how to greet one another and how to carry on back-and-forth conversations. Cover the ability to express needs and wants and more with the help of resources designed to build the oral language foundation students need to move on to become readers and writers.
How to Build Students' Oral Language Skills
- Add a Daily Read Aloud to Your Class Schedule — You never get too old to listen to a book read out loud, and listening to you read a book out loud is especially valuable for those bilingual learners who need to listen to a fluent reader!
- Incorporate Reader's Theater. Reader's theater can help students with not just their spoken language skills but non-verbal communication as well, giving them a chance to practice expressing a wide range of emotions through their voice and body language.
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Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Sorting Activity
Use this sorting activity with your First Grade and Second Grade students to practice differentiating between verbal and nonverbal communication methods.
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Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Act It Out Game
Use this active learning game to allow students to practice communication verbally and nonverbally, and interpret different verbal and nonverbal messages.
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Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Poster
Teach your young students the key to communication by starting with the basics — the difference between verbal and nonverbal communication methods.
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Picture Puzzles - Team Building Activities
A set of 10 picture puzzles to use as a team-building activity.
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Interview Shuffle — Classroom Community Building Interactive Slides
Help your students get to know each other with a Back to School Interview Shuffle icebreaker activity.
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Dramatic Play - Doctor's Office Pretend Play Pack
Create a dramatic play center with this doctor's office kit.
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Sing and Share - Musical Icebreakers Game
Use our Sing and Share Musical Icebreakers to get your music students up, sharing, and singing to learn more about their classmates.
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Dramatic Play Center - Dentist Office
Engage and encourage imaginative thinking with a dentist's office dramatic play center.
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Dramatic Play Center - Vet's Office Pack
Printable decor and elements for a veterinarian's office dramatic play center.
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Fruit and Vegetable - Grocery Store Dramatic Play Pack
Create a supermarket play center with a fruit and vegetable stand-themed grocery store dramatic play kit.
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Pretend Play Kit – Mechanic Shop Dramatic Play Theme
A mechanic shop themed dramatic play kit.
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Dramatic Play Kit – Coffee and Tea Shop
A coffee and tea shop themed dramatic play kit.
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Getting to Know You Fortune Teller
Use this getting to know you paper fortune teller and summary sheet as a first day of school activity.
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Non-Contact Morning Greetings Posters
Non-contact greetings that students can do with their teachers and peers.
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Speaking Skills for Oral Presentations Poster
A poster that explains the skills students need for a great oral presentation!
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Individual Oral Presentation Assessment Rubric
Use an individual oral presentation rubric to help your students work out their presentation plans.
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Shopping Cart Matchup Activity
A speaking and listening activity to reinforce a variety of mathematical concepts.
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Formal and Informal Greetings – Worksheet
A sorting worksheet where students distinguish the differences between formal and informal greetings.
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Getting to Know My Classmates – QR Code Template
Use QR codes to get to know your new classmates at the start of a new school year.
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Question Starter Display
A classroom display to encourage questioning in the classroom.
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Would You Rather...? Question Cards
Would You Rather use this set of 31 question cards or eat a can of worms?
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Group Work Role Cards
Review and reinforce eight possible roles for group work with this set of 2-in-1 reusable posters and desk cards.
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Speaking and Listening Activities Task Cards
A set of 13 cards with instructions for speaking and listening activities.
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Olympic Host City Bid – Speechwriting Project
Explore the advantages and disadvantages of being the host city for the Olympics in this inquiry and speechwriting task.
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Color Me Carefully Game
Practice your students' listening and speaking skills with a fun coloring activity.
- Oral Language Games
- Oral Language Templates
- Oral Language Posters
- Oral Language Worksheets
- Oral Language for Pre-K
- Oral Language for Kindergarten
- Oral Language for 1st Grade
- Oral Language for 2nd Grade
- Oral Language for 3rd Grade
- Oral Language for 4th Grade
- Oral Language for 5th Grade
- Oral Language for 6th Grade