Talk, Listen and Take Turns - Foundation

Teach reciprocal conversation through familiar play, paired exchanges and a structured small-group choice. This complete Foundation teaching week includes explicit model dialogues, guided practice, substantial child practice, flexible support and extension, teacher observations and closure.

Children practise across playground, making, animals, lunch and wet-day play topics. Picture choices, thinking time, rehearsal, pointing, gesture and communication aids support participation. Adult-read activities do not require independent reading, writing or a memorised solo speech. A different opinion can still be a relevant reply.

What's included

• 44-page A4 Unit Plan PDF: contents page, two teacher-guide pages, ten detailed lesson-plan pages and 31 resource pages.
• Editable 22-slide teaching PowerPoint covering all five lessons.
• Editable 22-slide quiz PowerPoint with ten questions and ten answer/feedback slides, plus cover and closing slides.
• Four colour displays and two worked conversation/repair models.
• Eighteen conversation cards and twelve scenario/repair pairs.
• Two role-play scenes, four voice context mats and eight voice scene cards.
• Eight-space cooperative Hear, Reply, Pass board, full rules and eight topic prompts.
• Collaborative wet-day choice mat.
• Five worksheets and five immediately following answer/example pages.
• Observation record, two-context assessment task and developmental rubric.
• 88-page watermarked Preview PDF and clean Table of Contents JPEG.

Formats

PDF; editable PPTX presentation and quiz; JPEG Table of Contents

Page counts

88 teaching pages/slides: 44 Unit Plan PDF pages + 22 presentation slides + 22 quiz slides. Covers and answer pages are included. The 88-page Preview repeats the teaching content and is not counted again. There are 31 resource pages: 18 colour and 13 low-ink practice, answer/example and assessment pages.