Bring story time to life with this engaging Oracy Starters PowerPoint, inspired by popular children’s books including The Gruffalo and Handa’s Surprise.

Each starter encourages children to talk, listen, explain their ideas and respond to others. The prompts can be used before reading, during a story or as a follow-up activity.

Perfect for:

Developing speaking and listening skills
Encouraging full-sentence answers
Building vocabulary and confidence
Exploring characters, settings and events
Supporting predictions, reasoning and imagination
Promoting partner, group and whole-class discussion

Ideal for EYFS and KS1 morning starters, carpet sessions, guided reading, book studies or quick lesson warm-ups.

Simply open the PowerPoint, display a prompt and get your children talking! Each slide has contains six ideas for that particular book which could be used over a number of days. Just pick your favourite for that day!

The featured books are used as inspiration and are not included with this resource