Resources for clinics and classrooms!

Bella & Boris

Boris and Bella play a key role in our Small Talk ni Classes, helping the children begin to understand and use an extending vocabulary, including action and position words. Why not purchase your own Boris or Bella, as a fun way of continuing with these activities at home, in nursery or at school!

Listening Rules

The pack includes four A5 ‘Boris’ listening cue cards, to define for children how they can show good listening. It contains instructions about how best to use them.

Washing Day

This game encourages development of understanding and also the ability to give detailed, complex instructions. It contains 2 A3 boards and 12 clothes items- 6 large and 6 small items.

Shopping Day

This game encourages development of understanding and also the ability to give detailed, complex instructions.The pack contains 6 A3 boards and 12 food items (6 small and 6 big images.)

Preposition Cards

The pack of 6 cards includes instructions about how best to teach prepositions and encourage their use.

Verbs set of 12

The pack explains how best to teach verbs, using readily available technologies as well as modelling and picture cues.

Emotions Cue Cards

The pack includes instructions about how best to teach emotions and how they relate to facial expression and experiences.

Station Cards

Station cards can be used to identify areas of focus in a classroom. The four areas relate to Listening and Understanding, Developing Vocabulary and Expressive language and Promoting Social Interaction. The pack includes instructions on how best to use them.

Sandcastle Poster

An attractive wall display poster summarising the different areas of speech, language and communication.

PDF Passport

A useful tool to share information about individual children regarding their communicative strengths, weaknesses, areas of interest etc. instructions for use included.

Small Talk NI’s Resource Pack

This pack will enable you to continue with our activities and includes Verb Cards, Listening Rules, Prepositions, Emotion Cards, Station Cards, Bella/Boris, Communication Passport PDF and Shopping and Washing Game.

Barrier Games

A barrier game can be used effectively to develop children’s listening skills and expressive language.
Each child has an identical board on which they have to place objects.One child has to GIVE effective instructions to the other child, who has to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the instruction, making their boards look alike.
Our games relate to popular early years themes such as toys, zoo animals, farm animals and at the beach.

Rainbow Poster

A3 poster for display in classrooms, parents areas or clinics, illustrating the development of sounds.

$Visual Time Table Cards \ A5 Cards$

Visual Time Table Cards \ A5 Cards

Visual timetables: for use in the classroom to help children anticipate their day and cope with change.

Pack of 19 Cards, printed on 300gsm silk card

Size: A5

Visual Timetable Cards / For older children

Visual timetables: for use in the classroom to help children anticipate their day and cope with change.

Pack of 19 Cards, printed on 300gsm silk card

Size: 27cm x 9.5cm

Card strips with large words and smaller images for use with older children.

Story Board Pack

Story board pack: This pack includes a series of 5 graded story boards to help fuel children’s imagination and generate ideas for stories. There are also three sets of component cards; ‘when’, ‘where’ and ‘who’.

Question Pack

This pack encourages children to ask questions. It includes a question wheel, cue cards, party invitation and odd one out board.

Sounds Around Pack

This pack develops the phonological awareness skills of syllable awareness, rhyme awareness and position of sounds in words. It includes a rhyme spinner and rhyming cards, syllable jigsaws, syllable sorting game, 2 A3 boards and f,p and t cards.

Sounds Stimulability Pack

This pack helps develop sound awareness and build a child’s production of sounds through 5 stages. Two lotto games and a set of all consonants, vowels and blends are included in the pack. The rainbow poster is also included.

Autumn Walk CD (Age 3-4)

This CD includes the following content:

Activity 1: Autumn Vocabulary

Activity 2: The Listening Tree (attention,listening & auditory memory)

Activity 3: Busy Bella (verbs)

Activity 4: Where is Boris? (prepositions)

Activity 5: Syllable Clapping (phonological awareness- syllables)

For ages 3-4

Home liaison CDS licensed to the purchaser (for multiple printing)

These programmes, based on the four seasons, can be used throughout the school year as home activities or as in class activities. The aim to promote skills such as attention and listening, understanding of language, expressive language and phonological awareness. (pre-reading skills)

Winter Walk CD (Age 3 -4)

This CD includes the following content:

Activity 1: Washing Day (attention, listening & auditory memory)

Activity 2: Sock fun (understanding & giving instructions)

Activity 3: Hanging out the washing (auditory memory)

Activity 4: Sounds around. (phonological awareness- syllables and rhyme)

For ages 3-4

Home liaison CDS licensed to the purchaser (for multiple printing)

These programmes, based on the four seasons, can be used throughout the school year as home activities or as in class activities. The aim to promote skills such as attention and listening, understanding of language, expressive language and phonological awareness. (pre-reading skills)

Summer Walk CD (Age 3-4)

This CD includes the following content:

Activity 1: The Listening Sandcastle (attention, listening & auditory memory)

Activity 2: All aboard the train (phonological awareness- beginning, middle & end)

Activity 3: Sound buckets (phonological awareness- sounds)

Activity 4: Busy Bella and the growing garden ( first/then & sequencing skills)

For ages 3-4

Home liaison CDS licensed to the purchaser (for multiple printing)

These programmes, based on the four seasons, can be used throughout the school year as home activities or as in class activities. The aim to promote skills such as attention and listening, understanding of language, expressive language and phonological awareness. (pre-reading skills)

Spring Walk CD (Age 3-4)

This CD includes the following content:

Activity 1: Boris and Bella’s farm (understanding instructions)

Activity 2: Sorting for size (understanding ‘er’ & ‘est’)

Activity 3: Hide and seek (prepositions)

For ages 3-4

Home liaison CDS licensed to the purchaser (for multiple printing)

These programmes, based on the four seasons, can be used throughout the school year as home activities or as in class activities. The aim to promote skills such as attention and listening, understanding of language, expressive language and phonological awareness. (pre-reading skills)

Autumn Adventure CD (Age 4 -6)

This CD includes the following content:

Activity 1: The ‘Autumn’ listening tree (attention, listening & auditory memory)

Activity 2: Autumn patterns (attention, listening & auditory memory and giving detailed instructions)

Activity 3: Autumn mind mapping (developing and categorising vocabulary to aid memory)

Activity 4: Rhyming fun ( phonological awareness- rhyme)

For ages 4-6

Home liaison CDS licensed to the purchaser (for multiple printing)

These programmes, based on the four seasons, can be used throughout the school year as home activities or as in class activities. The aim to promote skills such as attention and listening, understanding of language, expressive language and phonological awareness. (pre-reading skills)

Winter Adventure CD (Age 4-6)

This CD includes the following content:

Activity 1: Dress Boris and Bella game (understanding before/after, either/or and longer instructions)

Activity 2: Winter mind mapping (developing and categorising vocabulary to aid memory)

Activity 3: Tidy up the toys (understanding and giving detailed instructions- barrier game)

Activity 4: Sounds around- rhyming lotto ( phonological awareness- rhyme)

Activity 5: What day is it today? (understanding ‘yesterday’, ‘today’ & ‘tomorrow’)

For ages 4-6

Home liaison CDS licensed to the purchaser (for multiple printing)

These programmes, based on the four seasons, can be used throughout the school year as home activities or as in class activities. The aim to promote skills such as attention and listening, understanding of language, expressive language and phonological awareness. (pre-reading skills)

Summer Adventure (Age 4-6)

This CD includes the following content:

Activity 1: The Listening Sandcastle

Activity 2: What’s in a story? ( story mind mapping- exploring the components and sequence of a story)

Activity 3: Sounds around- sounds and syllables under the sea ( syllable jigsaws & sound placement)

Activity 4: Pirate fun (more/most/least, prepositions explored in a board game)

For ages 4-6

Home liaison CDS licensed to the purchaser (for multiple printing)

These programmes, based on the four seasons, can be used throughout the school year as home activities or as in class activities. The aim to promote skills such as attention and listening, understanding of language, expressive language and phonological awareness. (pre-reading skills)

Spring Adventure CD (Age 4-6)

This CD includes the following content:

Activity 1: Decorate the Easter Egg (understanding left/right, above/below & longer instructions)

Activity 2: Guess what? (asking effective questions & giving effective clues)

Activity 3: Sounds around-sort the sound ( phonological awareness- sound awareness)

Activity 4: Tell us a story (sequencing and using first/then, next & last)

For ages 4-6

Home liaison CDS licensed to the purchaser (for multiple printing)

These programmes, based on the four seasons, can be used throughout the school year as home activities or as in class activities. The aim to promote skills such as attention and listening, understanding of language, expressive language and phonological awareness. (pre-reading skills)

Autumn Antics CD (Age 5-7)

This CD includes the following content:

Activity 1: Autumn mind mapping (developing and categorising vocabulary to aid and expand memory within a topic)

Activity 2: Autumn Snakes and Ladders (verbal reasoning board game)

Activity 3: Autumn Stories (creating and structuring stories from component parts)

Activity 4: Sounds around (sound placement awareness)

For ages 5-7

Home liaison CDS licensed to the purchaser (for multiple printing)

These programmes, based on the four seasons, can be used throughout the school year as home activities or as in class activities. The aim to promote skills such as attention and listening, understanding of language, expressive language and phonological awareness. (pre-reading skills)

Winter Wonderland CD (Age 5-7)

This CD includes the following content:

Activity 1: The Christmas Party Invitation (complex verbal reasoning game)

Activity 2: Guess what? (asking effective questions & giving effective clues)

Activity 3: Season Sorting ( explaining when events happen and why)

Activity 4: Tell us a story (creating and structuring stories from component parts, including ‘why’)

Activity 5: Sounds around (sound placement awareness)

For ages 5-7

Home liaison CDS licensed to the purchaser (for multiple printing)

These programmes, based on the four seasons, can be used throughout the school year as home activities or as in class activities. The aim to promote skills such as attention and listening, understanding of language, expressive language and phonological awareness. (pre-reading skills)

Spring has Sprung CD (Age 5-7)

This CD includes the following content:

Activity 1: Inspector Boris (phonological & semantic investigation of words)

Activity 2: Sounds around- where is the ‘th’? (sound placement awareness & production of sound)

Activity 3: tell us a story- but we want to know more (expanding adjectives in a structured way & building these into a story)

Activity 4: Idioms- what’s that you said? ( exploring idioms/expressions)

For ages 5-7

Home liaison CDS licensed to the purchaser (for multiple printing)

These programmes, based on the four seasons, can be used throughout the school year as home activities or as in class activities. The aim to promote skills such as attention and listening, understanding of language, expressive language and phonological awareness. (pre-reading skills)

Sizzling Summer CD (Age 5-7)

This CD includes the following content:

Activity 1: Book the holiday (complex verbal reasoning game)

Activity 2: getting sorted for holiday (categorising vocabulary)

Activity 3: past, present and future (using tenses)

Activity 4: Sounds around- where is the ‘r’ sound? (sound placement awareness & production)

For ages 5-7

Home liaison CDS licensed to the purchaser (for multiple printing)

These programmes, based on the four seasons, can be used throughout the school year as home activities or as in class activities. The aim to promote skills such as attention and listening, understanding of language, expressive language and phonological awareness. (pre-reading skills)