Oral Language Resources

Internet Activities for Listening and Speaking
This PowerPoint presentation assumes your students are ESL; however, many of the sites linked could easily be used in an elementary classroom.

Kids 4 Broadway
Provides warm-up activities to prepare children age 7-17 for drama roles. Includes pantomime, mirror exercise, tug of war, and bean bag.

Kids' Corner
Find out more about how television, film and video games are produced and marketed. Check out some pro-active ideas from young activists, and "speak out" about media in the Just for Kids discussion group.

Storytelling Lesson Plans and Activities
This collection of story-related activities, projects and games-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with students, teachers, and librarians-can be used by educators in a school setting to encourage speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.

Storytelling Workshop
To tell a story is to be in the story with our own personal way of playing. Don't try to duplicate some other person's way of doing voices or movements. Some storytellers stand very still, and some of us are very animated. Some of us use funny voices, and some of us speak simply as ourselves.