Oral Language Resources for Australian Primary Schools
Oral language refers to the act of speaking and listening. The main components for the oral language skill set includes: word knowledge (vocabulary), sentence structure (grammar), language understanding (semantic and comprehension ability) and structured thinking (or the ability to elaborate, organise and sequence thoughts). While poor oral language skills do not prevent children from reading, the long-term impact is concerning. By middle primary school, when both the curriculum and reading material increase in difficulty, a significant number of students will struggle to keep up with the demands of the curriculum if they have poorly developed language skills.
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Speaking & Listening
Narrative
Semantics
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Ultimate Early Years PLD Starter Pack
$764.48$649.80
The essential resources you need for Early Years Literacy, Oral Language and Movement and Motor.
The Early Years (Ages 3 & 4) are a significant period in a child’s development. Here at PLD, we believe that it is essential for
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Essential Early Years Oral Language Starter Pack
$326.70$277.70A complete Oral Langage resource bundle for Early Years parents and teachers.
In the Early Years, vocabularies are growing daily, sentences are becoming longer and the children’s sense of wonder about the world around them grows. As
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Semantics program for Early Years & Foundation – Full Set
$330.00$280.50Designed by speech pathologists for children in the early years, each book contains short 5 and 10-minute tasks created to explicitly explore the realm of semantics. The colourful pictures are engaging and educational. This bundle of Semantics resources, ideal for Early Years and Foundation students contains: Semantic Scenes and Questioning – Set 1 Semantic Scenes […]
Designed by speech pathologists for children in the early years, each book contains short 5 and 10-minute tasks created to explicitly explore the realm of
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Comprehension Questions for 3 Year Olds
$82.50A home or school picture book program for 3 year olds.Â
From the age of two, children should have a vocabulary of approximately 50 words and a sentence length of 2 to 3 words. Put simply,
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Comprehension Questions for 4 Year Olds
$82.50A home or school picture book program for 4 Year Old students.Â
The aim of Comprehension Questions for 4 Year olds is to train parents and teachers to ask developmentally appropriate questions and to evaluate the quality
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Essential Foundation Oral Language Starter Pack
$326.70$277.70Oral language bundle of resources for news telling, oral comprehension, semantics and language games.Â
Within the Foundation Year, students should be taught how to verbalise the vocabulary for a range of semantic groups, generate sentences for writing relatively independently
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Ultimate Foundation PLD Starter Pack
$998.61$848.83A complete suite of resources for the Foundation Year including Oral Language, Literacy and Movement and Motor.
This ULTIMATE Foundation Starter Pack contains all of what PLD believes to be our essential resources for the Foundation year. In this Foundation year of
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Semantics program for Early Years & Foundation – Full Set
$330.00$280.50Designed by speech pathologists for children in the early years, each book contains short 5 and 10-minute tasks created to explicitly explore the realm of semantics. The colourful pictures are engaging and educational. This bundle of Semantics resources, ideal for Early Years and Foundation students contains: Semantic Scenes and Questioning – Set 1 Semantic Scenes […]
Designed by speech pathologists for children in the early years, each book contains short 5 and 10-minute tasks created to explicitly explore the realm of
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Comprehension Questions for 5 Year Olds
$82.50A home or school picture book program for 5 year old students.
The aim of Comprehension Questions for 5 Year olds is to train parents and teachers to ask developmentally appropriate questions and to evaluate the quality of
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Ultimate Year 1 and 2 PLD Starter Pack
$825.07$701.32Every essential resource in Oral Language and Literacy for Year 1 and 2 classrooms.
Repeated targeted practice to facilitate automatic skills. Establishing automatic and efficient skills in literacy, handwriting and oral language is a priority within Year 1 and
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Essential Year 1 and 2 Oral Language Starter Pack
$239.58$203.64A complete Year 1 and 2, Oral Language program
By the end of Year 1, children need to be able to: Generate complex sentences for writing Demonstrate inferential, predictive and evaluative comprehension ability Building
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Comprehension Questions for 6 and 7 Year Olds
$82.50A home or school picture book program for 6 and 7 year olds.Â
The aim of Comprehension Questions for 6 & 7 Year olds is to train parents and teachers to ask developmentally appropriate questions and to evaluate the
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Essential Year 3, 4, 5, 6 Oral Language Starter Pack
$239.58$203.64A complete Year 3, 4, 5, 6 Oral Language program
Between Year 3 and 6, children need to be able to: Read a range of material and demonstrate inferential, evaluative, appreciative, and reorganisation levels of
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Comprehension Questions for 8 and 9 Year Olds
$82.50A home or school picture book program for middle primary students.Â
The aim of Comprehension Questions for 8 and 9 Year olds is to train parents and teachers to ask developmentally appropriate questions and to evaluate the
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Ultimate Early Years PLD Starter Pack
$764.48$649.80The essential resources you need for Early Years Literacy, Oral Language and Movement and Motor.
The Early Years (Ages 3 & 4) are a significant period in a child’s development. Here at PLD, we believe that it is essential for
-
Essential Early Years Oral Language Starter Pack
$326.70$277.70A complete Oral Langage resource bundle for Early Years parents and teachers.
In the Early Years, vocabularies are growing daily, sentences are becoming longer and the children’s sense of wonder about the world around them grows. As
-
Semantics program for Early Years & Foundation – Full Set
$330.00$280.50Designed by speech pathologists for children in the early years, each book contains short 5 and 10-minute tasks created to explicitly explore the realm of semantics. The colourful pictures are engaging and educational. This bundle of Semantics resources, ideal for Early Years and Foundation students contains: Semantic Scenes and Questioning – Set 1 Semantic Scenes […]
Designed by speech pathologists for children in the early years, each book contains short 5 and 10-minute tasks created to explicitly explore the realm of
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Activity Retells for 3 to 5 Year Olds
$82.50Developing language within the early years
Narrative skills can be a challenge for children to master, but Activity Retells for 3 – 5 year olds is designed to make the journey
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Developing News Telling and Narrative Skills For 4 Year Olds
$82.50Oral langage preparation for writing including show and tell, activity retells & news telling.
Initially, all four-year-olds will require support with activity retells. However if after a period of teaching they appear anxious or produce inadequate information then they
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Speech Development Screen
$82.50A simple articulation screen for teachers and parents.
Designed by Speech Pathologists for use in early childhood centres, schools and the home. The screen is quick and simple to administer. The screen
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Picture Book Retelling – Step 1
$82.50Developing oral narrative skills for later writing & comprehension.
Picture Book Retelling Step 1, is a teaching resource that attempts to break down early picture book retelling skills into simple sequential steps for teachers
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Essential Foundation Oral Language Starter Pack
$326.70$277.70Oral language bundle of resources for news telling, oral comprehension, semantics and language games.Â
Within the Foundation Year, students should be taught how to verbalise the vocabulary for a range of semantic groups, generate sentences for writing relatively independently
-
Ultimate Foundation PLD Starter Pack
$998.61$848.83A complete suite of resources for the Foundation Year including Oral Language, Literacy and Movement and Motor.
This ULTIMATE Foundation Starter Pack contains all of what PLD believes to be our essential resources for the Foundation year. In this Foundation year of
-
Semantics program for Early Years & Foundation – Full Set
$330.00$280.50Designed by speech pathologists for children in the early years, each book contains short 5 and 10-minute tasks created to explicitly explore the realm of semantics. The colourful pictures are engaging and educational. This bundle of Semantics resources, ideal for Early Years and Foundation students contains: Semantic Scenes and Questioning – Set 1 Semantic Scenes […]
Designed by speech pathologists for children in the early years, each book contains short 5 and 10-minute tasks created to explicitly explore the realm of
-
Activity Retells for 3 to 5 Year Olds
$82.50Developing language within the early years
Narrative skills can be a challenge for children to master, but Activity Retells for 3 – 5 year olds is designed to make the journey
-
Comprehension Questions for 5 Year Olds
$82.50A home or school picture book program for 5 year old students.
The aim of Comprehension Questions for 5 Year olds is to train parents and teachers to ask developmentally appropriate questions and to evaluate the quality of
-
Developing News Telling and Narrative Skills for 5 Year Olds
$82.50Developing News Telling and Narrative Skills is an instruction manual with explicit details on how to develop show and tell, activity retells and news telling for 5 year olds
As children enter school as five-year-olds they continue to make the steps that move them from conversations to literate language. This can be a daunting
-
Speech Development Screen
$82.50A simple articulation screen for teachers and parents.
Designed by Speech Pathologists for use in early childhood centres, schools and the home. The screen is quick and simple to administer. The screen
-
Picture Book Retelling – Step 2
$82.50Developing oral narrative skills for later writing & comprehension.
Picture Book Retelling Step 2, is a teaching resource that attempts to break down early picture book retelling skills into simple sequential steps for teachers
-
Ultimate Year 1 and 2 PLD Starter Pack
$825.07$701.32Every essential resource in Oral Language and Literacy for Year 1 and 2 classrooms.
Repeated targeted practice to facilitate automatic skills. Establishing automatic and efficient skills in literacy, handwriting and oral language is a priority within Year 1 and
-
Essential Year 1 and 2 Oral Language Starter Pack
$239.58$203.64A complete Year 1 and 2, Oral Language program
By the end of Year 1, children need to be able to: Generate complex sentences for writing Demonstrate inferential, predictive and evaluative comprehension ability Building
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Connecting Oral and Written Language – Step 1
$82.50Instructional material outlining how to teach 6 to 8 year olds narrative oral retelling, rewriting and generation.
Although there are many types of genres, the most complex genre is narrative. The production of a narrative is more cognitively and linguistically demanding than
-
Speech Development Screen
$82.50A simple articulation screen for teachers and parents.
Designed by Speech Pathologists for use in early childhood centres, schools and the home. The screen is quick and simple to administer. The screen
-
Essential Year 3, 4, 5, 6 Oral Language Starter Pack
$239.58$203.64A complete Year 3, 4, 5, 6 Oral Language program
Between Year 3 and 6, children need to be able to: Read a range of material and demonstrate inferential, evaluative, appreciative, and reorganisation levels of
-
Ultimate Early Years PLD Starter Pack
$764.48$649.80The essential resources you need for Early Years Literacy, Oral Language and Movement and Motor.
The Early Years (Ages 3 & 4) are a significant period in a child’s development. Here at PLD, we believe that it is essential for
-
Essential Early Years Oral Language Starter Pack
$326.70$277.70A complete Oral Langage resource bundle for Early Years parents and teachers.
In the Early Years, vocabularies are growing daily, sentences are becoming longer and the children’s sense of wonder about the world around them grows. As
-
Activity Retells for 3 to 5 Year Olds
$82.50Developing language within the early years
Narrative skills can be a challenge for children to master, but Activity Retells for 3 – 5 year olds is designed to make the journey
-
Narrative structure for 6 to 8 year olds
$32.95An A4 card set for helping 6 to 8-year-old children to start expressing themselves verbally and in writing
The card set explicitly outlines the components of a basic narrative: a beginning, a problem, characters thoughts and feelings, multiple events, an ending and finally
-
Developing News Telling and Narrative Skills For 4 Year Olds
$82.50Oral langage preparation for writing including show and tell, activity retells & news telling.
Initially, all four-year-olds will require support with activity retells. However if after a period of teaching they appear anxious or produce inadequate information then they
-
Picture Book Retelling – Step 1
$82.50Developing oral narrative skills for later writing & comprehension.
Picture Book Retelling Step 1, is a teaching resource that attempts to break down early picture book retelling skills into simple sequential steps for teachers
-
Essential Foundation Oral Language Starter Pack
$326.70$277.70Oral language bundle of resources for news telling, oral comprehension, semantics and language games.Â
Within the Foundation Year, students should be taught how to verbalise the vocabulary for a range of semantic groups, generate sentences for writing relatively independently
-
Ultimate Foundation PLD Starter Pack
$998.61$848.83A complete suite of resources for the Foundation Year including Oral Language, Literacy and Movement and Motor.
This ULTIMATE Foundation Starter Pack contains all of what PLD believes to be our essential resources for the Foundation year. In this Foundation year of
-
Activity Retells for 3 to 5 Year Olds
$82.50Developing language within the early years
Narrative skills can be a challenge for children to master, but Activity Retells for 3 – 5 year olds is designed to make the journey
-
Developing News Telling and Narrative Skills for 5 Year Olds
$82.50Developing News Telling and Narrative Skills is an instruction manual with explicit details on how to develop show and tell, activity retells and news telling for 5 year olds
As children enter school as five-year-olds they continue to make the steps that move them from conversations to literate language. This can be a daunting
-
Picture Book Retelling – Step 2
$82.50Developing oral narrative skills for later writing & comprehension.
Picture Book Retelling Step 2, is a teaching resource that attempts to break down early picture book retelling skills into simple sequential steps for teachers
-
Ultimate Year 1 and 2 PLD Starter Pack
$825.07$701.32Every essential resource in Oral Language and Literacy for Year 1 and 2 classrooms.
Repeated targeted practice to facilitate automatic skills. Establishing automatic and efficient skills in literacy, handwriting and oral language is a priority within Year 1 and
-
Essential Year 1 and 2 Oral Language Starter Pack
$239.58$203.64A complete Year 1 and 2, Oral Language program
By the end of Year 1, children need to be able to: Generate complex sentences for writing Demonstrate inferential, predictive and evaluative comprehension ability Building
-
Generating Narratives – Set 1
$38.50A resource helping children to start expressing themselves verbally and in writing on the basis of multiple picture prompts.
Generating Narratives – Set 1 is designed for Year 1 through to Year 6 students and supports the generation of oral and written narratives. Through
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Narrative structure for 6 to 8 year olds
$32.95An A4 card set for helping 6 to 8-year-old children to start expressing themselves verbally and in writing
The card set explicitly outlines the components of a basic narrative: a beginning, a problem, characters thoughts and feelings, multiple events, an ending and finally
-
Connecting Oral and Written Language – Step 1
$82.50Instructional material outlining how to teach 6 to 8 year olds narrative oral retelling, rewriting and generation.
Although there are many types of genres, the most complex genre is narrative. The production of a narrative is more cognitively and linguistically demanding than
-
Generating Narratives – Set 2
$38.50A resource for helping children to start expressing themselves verbally and in writing through the use of multiple picture prompts.
Generating Narratives – Set 2 is designed for students aged 6 to 12 and supports the generation of oral and written narratives. Through picture sequences,
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Essential Year 3, 4, 5, 6 Oral Language Starter Pack
$239.58$203.64A complete Year 3, 4, 5, 6 Oral Language program
Between Year 3 and 6, children need to be able to: Read a range of material and demonstrate inferential, evaluative, appreciative, and reorganisation levels of
-
Generating Narratives – Set 1
$38.50A resource helping children to start expressing themselves verbally and in writing on the basis of multiple picture prompts.
Generating Narratives – Set 1 is designed for Year 1 through to Year 6 students and supports the generation of oral and written narratives. Through
-
Narrative structure for 9 to 12 year olds
$32.95An A4 card set for helping 9 to 12 year-old children to express themselves verbally and in writing
The card set explicitly outlines the components of a sophisticated narrative: an introduction, a problem, characters thoughts and feelings, a character’s plan, multiple attempts, a
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Comprehension Questions for 8 and 9 Year Olds
$82.50A home or school picture book program for middle primary students.Â
The aim of Comprehension Questions for 8 and 9 Year olds is to train parents and teachers to ask developmentally appropriate questions and to evaluate the
-
Connecting Oral and Written Language – Step 2
$82.50Connecting Oral & Written Language – Step 2 is an instructional material outlining how to teach 9 to 12 year olds to express themselves in a structured way
Although there are many types of genres, the most complex genre is narrative. The production of a narrative is more cognitively and linguistically demanding than participation
-
Generating Narratives – Set 2
$38.50A resource for helping children to start expressing themselves verbally and in writing through the use of multiple picture prompts.
Generating Narratives – Set 2 is designed for students aged 6 to 12 and supports the generation of oral and written narratives. Through picture sequences,
-
Ultimate Early Years PLD Starter Pack
$764.48$649.80The essential resources you need for Early Years Literacy, Oral Language and Movement and Motor.
The Early Years (Ages 3 & 4) are a significant period in a child’s development. Here at PLD, we believe that it is essential for
-
Essential Early Years Oral Language Starter Pack
$326.70$277.70A complete Oral Langage resource bundle for Early Years parents and teachers.
In the Early Years, vocabularies are growing daily, sentences are becoming longer and the children’s sense of wonder about the world around them grows. As
-
Semantics program for Early Years & Foundation – Full Set
$330.00$280.50Designed by speech pathologists for children in the early years, each book contains short 5 and 10-minute tasks created to explicitly explore the realm of semantics. The colourful pictures are engaging and educational. This bundle of Semantics resources, ideal for Early Years and Foundation students contains: Semantic Scenes and Questioning – Set 1 Semantic Scenes […]
Designed by speech pathologists for children in the early years, each book contains short 5 and 10-minute tasks created to explicitly explore the realm of
-
10 Minute Language Games – Set 1
$82.50Developing vocabulary and the ability to speak in sentences.
Designed by speech pathologists for teachers and parents, 10 Minute Language Games – Set 1 for 3 to 5 year olds presents numerous short fast
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Semantic Scenes and Questioning – Set 1
$82.50A school-based or home-based program designed to equip teachers and parents of 3-4 year old children with activities that will develop semantic knowledge.
Semantic Scenes and Questioning – Set 1 is designed to equip teachers and parents of 3-4 year old children with activities that will develop semantic
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Essential Foundation Oral Language Starter Pack
$326.70$277.70Oral language bundle of resources for news telling, oral comprehension, semantics and language games.Â
Within the Foundation Year, students should be taught how to verbalise the vocabulary for a range of semantic groups, generate sentences for writing relatively independently
-
Ultimate Foundation PLD Starter Pack
$998.61$848.83A complete suite of resources for the Foundation Year including Oral Language, Literacy and Movement and Motor.
This ULTIMATE Foundation Starter Pack contains all of what PLD believes to be our essential resources for the Foundation year. In this Foundation year of
-
Semantics program for Early Years & Foundation – Full Set
$330.00$280.50Designed by speech pathologists for children in the early years, each book contains short 5 and 10-minute tasks created to explicitly explore the realm of semantics. The colourful pictures are engaging and educational. This bundle of Semantics resources, ideal for Early Years and Foundation students contains: Semantic Scenes and Questioning – Set 1 Semantic Scenes […]
Designed by speech pathologists for children in the early years, each book contains short 5 and 10-minute tasks created to explicitly explore the realm of
-
10 Minute Language Games – Set 2
$82.50Developing vocabulary and the ability to speak in sentences.
Designed by speech pathologists for teachers and parents, 10 Minute Language Games – Set 2 for 4 to 6 year olds presents numerous short fast
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Semantic Scenes and Questioning – Set 2
$82.50A school or home based program designed to equip teachers and parents of 5-6 year old children with activities that will develop semantic knowledge.
Semantic Scenes and Questioning – Set 2 is designed to equip teachers and parents of 5-6 year old children with activities that will develop semantic knowledge.
