Talking at Home and School - Foundation

Help Foundation learners choose useful language by noticing WHO, WHERE and WHAT I NEED. Familiar home, classroom, playground and library scenes show how a message can stay the same or change when the person, place or need changes.

Six complete lessons move from identifying people and places to comparing requests, adding useful details, switching scenes and clarifying misunderstood messages. Each lesson includes modelling, guided practice, practical application, checks, reflection, support and extension. Plan around 35 minutes per lesson, with flexible transitions.

Children can speak, use a home language or dialect, point, use AAC, rehearse or ask for teacher scribing. The teacher reads prompts aloud. The unit accepts several suitable responses and does not require independent reading or extended writing.

What's included

• 34-page Unit Plan and resources PDF: contents page, overview and six lesson plans, followed by the complete resource sequence.
• Editable 24-slide presentation for explicit models, guided discussion and partner practice.
• Editable 22-slide quiz with ten questions and ten separate answer/feedback slides, plus cover and closing slides.
• Two colour displays: People, Places, Messages and Talking in Two Places.
• Twelve relationship picture cards across two pages.
• Eight paired home/school situations across four pages.
• Two Compare-and-Try mats: one scaffolded example and one reusable mat.
• Twelve message options cards across two pages.
• Three low-ink worksheets with three adjacent red example-answer pages.
• Six-stop Scene-Switch Trail board, separate rules, six context cards and six need cards.
• Practice teacher guide with possible messages, context-linked reasons, worksheet read-aloud prompts and misconception support.
• Two assessment pages: learner scene prompts and an observation record.
• Four-dimension rubric with three progress levels and an access/support note.
• Full 80-page watermarked Preview PDF and clean Table of Contents JPG.

Learning focus

Recognise the people and setting in an exchange; communicate a relevant need; keep, adapt or clarify a message when useful; and give or show a simple reason linked to the context. A clear respectful request can fit several listeners. A direct urgent help request is accepted without a compulsory politeness word; injury or danger is never simulated.

Classroom use

Use for whole-class modelling, supported pairs, role play, small-group practice and everyday routine follow-up. Read card labels and prompts aloud. Use familiar props or pictures. The game allows choosing a space instead of moving, and has no speed winner. Worksheets allow pointing, drawing, speech or scribing. The new assessment scenes help capture actual wording or supported choices rather than memorised worksheet answers.

Teacher benefits

The included models, picture cues, teacher-read prompts and response options make the same learning focus usable in whole-class and supported practice. Paired contexts help children compare listener needs. Lesson plans, answer examples and observation tools give teachers a connected teaching and assessment sequence.

Digital product and licence

Digital download for teaching use. No physical item is supplied. Use is subject to Sukindi's applicable licence terms.

Formats and page counts

• Unit Plan and resources: PDF, 34 pages including the contents page.
• Presentation: editable PPTX, 24 slides.
• Quiz: editable PPTX, 22 slides; ten questions with separate feedback.
• Total learning content: 80 pages/slides across those three learning files.
• Preview: PDF, 80 pages repeating that content, with a clean first contents page and watermarks on subsequent pages.
• Table of Contents: JPG.

The resource pages are image-based PDF pages and are not editable worksheets. PowerPoint-compatible software and a PDF reader are needed for the teaching files.

Answers

All three worksheets have immediate red example-answer counterparts. The quiz provides a separate feedback slide for each question. Teacher guidance explicitly accepts suitable alternatives. The assessment records person/setting, need, adjustment and reason; eye contact, accent, spelling, volume and performance confidence are not scored.