This About Me worksheet lets kindergarten students draw a self-portrait and share their name, age, and favorite things for back to school. A no-prep, open-ended way to build confidence and classroom community.

This Let's Talk classroom speaking activity gives kindergarten through 3rd grade students role cards, topic cards and a self-check for small group talks. A practice page and answer key are included.

UsingGuess Who Matching Game Activity, students take turns asking questions to figure out their partner's mystery person.

Using this SL.K.6 Kindergarten Common Core Lesson, studentsspeak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

This total recall activity for Kindergarten to 3rd Grade has kids tell about real memories, spin for a question word, and draw and write about one memory.

Using this Classroom Conversations Activity, students participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

This express your feelings character education activity helps K-2nd grade students name six feelings with bracelets, charades and talk cards, then speak in full sentences. Answer key included.

A one-page speaking language assessment worksheet for Kindergarten teachers, with six observation statements and a three-point rating scale. Watch how each child speaks and know exactly which language skill to teach next.

This Let's Talk About It activity gives Kindergarten to 2nd Grade students sentence starters for sharing, asking and agreeing in partner talks, with a spinner game. Answer key included.

The Students Speak Assessment Worksheet helps kindergarten teachers record how children speak to a group, with checkboxes for clear, audible speech and space for anecdotal notes.

Using the Asking Questions Activity, students actively engage in group reading activities to discuss purpose and understanding after shared reading.

These after reading discussion cards give kindergarten to 3rd grade readers 24 story questions, a spinner and a book talk page for lively group conversations about any book.

Using the Read it Aloud Activity, students create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace.

Using the Help Me Out Asking Questions Activity, students produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.

This asking questions about a story activity helps Kindergarten to 2nd Grade readers match question cards to answers from a short story. Answer key included, so checking the work is quick.

This ask me about it speaking and listening activity gives Kindergarten to 2nd Grade children topic cards, question cards and a spinner to share, ask and answer, with an answer key included.

This asking and answering questions activity has Kindergarten to 2nd Grade listeners spin a question word and ask a speaker about a picture card. Answer key included for easy checking.

Using Gold Medal Reading Strategies Activity, students read grade-level text with purpose and understanding using graphic organizers for support.

Using this SL.K.1 Kindergarten Common Core Lesson, students participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Using this SL.K.4 Kindergarten Common Core Lesson, students describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting andsupport, provide additional detail.