Our Oral Language Activities Build Social Skills

Are you looking for a way to expand your students’ speaking and listening skills? Our Oral Language Activities Set is the answer! These colourful task cards will have your students role-playing common scenarios to help them increase their oral language skills in many areas, including:

• Listening to others
• Conflict resolution
• Coping skills
• Responsibility
• Kindness
• Sharing opinions

This oral language activity set can be used in a whole group, in guided groups, or in pairs. We recommend printing them on cardstock and then laminating for longevity. 

Using Our Oral Language Activity Set

These oral language activities are easy to download, print, and use immediately in your classroom. Here are some instructions and suggestions for use: 

1. Download and print the resource. 
2. Cut all the cards out. 
3. Break students into pairs. Give each pair one of the cards. 
4. Students read the card and either “Act it out” or “Talk it out.” 
5. When it looks like all pairs are finished, ask pairs to rotate their cards so they each get a new one. 
6. The activity continues, with pairs completing their new card.  

After students have completed multiple cards, you could even have them come up with a few oral language activities themselves!

Download These Oral Language Development Activities 

We have made these oral language development activities available in both PDF and Google Slides format for ease of use. Just click the drop-down menu on the download button to grab this resource in the format of your choice! 

This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a teacher and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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