Speaking and Listening — Year 1

Table of Contents: editable Speaking and Listening presentation; Talk + Listen = Teamwork and Questions Keep Talk Going classroom displays; Partner Talk Cards; Listening Detective, Speaker Skills, Question or Comment?, Open or Closed?, Keep It Going! and Conversation Builder worksheets with matching answer pages; Spin and Ask and Talk Team Trail games; editable ten-question quiz; Design a Dream Playground assessment; and a five-level Speaking and Listening Rubric.

This complete Year 1 English unit helps children learn how to speak clearly, choose a suitable volume, show confident speaking behaviours, listen actively, wait for a pause, take turns fairly and keep a conversation on topic. Explicit teaching of questions and comments, open and closed questions, connected responses and follow-up questions gives students practical tools they can use immediately in partner, small-group and whole-class conversations.

The five-lesson sequence moves from direct instruction and teacher modelling to guided partner talk, independent worksheet practice, games, review and assessment. Australian English is used throughout, and the editable presentation and quiz make the unit easy to adapt for a class.

What's included

• Editable 28-slide Speaking and Listening PowerPoint presentation.
• Editable 22-slide PowerPoint quiz: title, ten question-and-answer pairs, and final slide.
• 21-page Unit Plan PDF with a clean Table of Contents page and 20 printable resource, answer, assessment and rubric pages.
• Two colour classroom displays: Talk + Listen = Teamwork; Questions Keep Talk Going.
• Two pages of colour Partner Talk Cards.
• Six black-and-white worksheets: Listening Detective; Speaker Skills; Question or Comment?; Open or Closed?; Keep It Going!; Conversation Builder.
• Six matching answer pages with red answers placed in the student response spaces.
• Two colour games: Spin and Ask; Talk Team Trail.
• Assessment: Design a Dream Playground.
• Five-level Speaking and Listening Rubric.
• 71-page combined Preview PDF containing the unit plan, all presentation slides and all quiz slides.

Learning focus

• Use a clear voice and a suitable volume.
• Use confident posture and respectful eye contact.
• Listen actively and wait for a speaker to finish.
• Take turns and respond on topic.
• Distinguish questions from comments.
• Use open and closed questions.
• Add relevant comments and follow-up questions to sustain a conversation.

Classroom use

Use the presentation for explicit teaching and modelling, the displays as classroom prompts, the cards and games for guided partner practice, the worksheets for consolidation, the quiz for review, and the assessment and rubric for evidence of learning. The sequence suits approximately five lessons or one school week.

Formats, counts and answers

Formats: Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx) and PDF (.pdf).

Core content count: 71 pages or slides — 21 Unit Plan PDF pages, 28 presentation slides and 22 quiz slides.

Combined Preview: exactly 71 pages.

Answer-key status: Included — six worksheet answer pages and answer slides for all ten quiz questions.

Teacher benefits

• A coherent five-lesson sequence reduces planning time.
• Editable teaching and quiz slides support class-specific adjustments.
• Displays, partner activities, worksheets and games provide varied practice.
• Matching answers, assessment and rubric support efficient feedback and evidence collection.

Digital product and licence

This is a digital product; no physical item is supplied. Purchase grants one teacher a single-classroom licence. Files may not be resold, redistributed, uploaded to shared public locations or used to create competing products.