K/S1- Oral Language and Communication
Aligned to the NSW Syllabus for The Australian curriculum  (http://syllabus.bos.nsw.edu.au/)
- outcomes listed at bottom of page
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All About Me • ABCya! ​
​(some activities require subscription)
Talking and listening - KS1 - BBC Bitesize (some of the videos do not work in our region - access to transcripts, ideas and quizzes is available)
Oral Language Suggested Activities -
​Little Growing Minds Matter
Listening skills - 12: Sound games - BBC Teach
Exploring Our Senses Lesson Plan - Hearing - Australian Curriculum Lessons
Listening skills - BBC Teach
Speaking and listening KS1 - Oak National Academy (free access)
Retelling a story KS1 - Oak National Academy (free access)
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KS2 listening - Teaching resources - wordwall
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KS1 listening - Teaching resources - wordwall
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Lots of Activities from Twinkl - subscription may be needed for some of the activities
Five Minute Morning Attention and Listening Activities
Speaking and Conversation Skills 
Spoken Language & Listening
Ks2 Speaking And ListeningTeaching Resources 
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Lots of Activities from IXL - (subscription may be needed for the interactives at the bottom of the page)
 ES1
Reading Foundations: Reading Strategies; Vocabulary and Grammar
Yr1
Reading Foundations: Reading Strategies; Vocabulary and Grammar
Yr2
Reading Foundations: Reading Strategies; Writing Strategies; Vocabulary and Grammar
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Syllabus Outcomes​ 
Syllabus Outcomes​ ​
ENE-OLC-01
communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults
EN1-OLC-01
communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Content
Content
Listening for understanding
  • Orientate self to the speaker
  • Recognise how nonverbal language can contribute to meaning in spoken communication
  • Respond to spoken questions
  • Follow up to 3-part spoken instructions
  • Understand how pronouns can be linked to nouns to support meaning
  • Understand how the most common inflected word forms affect the meanings of words
  • Listen for a purpose by agreeing or disagreeing, adding to the comment of others, or sharing thoughts and feelings
Social and learning interactions
  • Contribute to group conversations
  • Start a conversation with a peer and/or adult, staying on topic
  • Take turns when speaking during structured and unstructured play
  • Use oral language to make requests and express needs
  • Use oral language to reason when speaking
  • Use oral language to persuade, negotiate, give opinions or discuss ideas
  • Use imaginative, verbal language in structured and unstructured activities
  • Ask questions using who, what, when, where, why or how
Understanding and using grammar when interacting
  • Understand there are many languages that are used by family, peers and community
  • Use short phrases and simple sentences when speaking
  • Use connectives such as and, but and because when speaking
  • Use regular past tense verbs when speaking
  • Use irregular past tense verbs when speaking
  • Use a combination of sentences to elaborate and connect ideas
Oral narrative
  • Tell a story or information to peers or adults using oral language
  • Retell favourite stories, poems, songs and rhymes with some parts as exact repetition and some in their own words
  • Recall details of events or stories using who, what, when, where, why and how
Complementary content for alternative communication forms: Listening for understanding
  • Recognise how nonverbal language can contribute to meaning when communicating
  • Respond to symbolic, signed and/or spoken questions
  • Follow up to 3-part instructions given in speech, signs or symbols
  • Attend to a communication partner for a purpose by agreeing or disagreeing, adding on to the comment of others, or sharing thoughts and feelings
Complementary content for alternative communication forms: Social and learning interactions
  • Take turns when communicating during structured and unstructured play
  • Use gestures, symbols, signs in combination with, or in place of speech, to convey requests and express needs
  • Use gestures, symbols, signs in combination with or in place of speech, to reason when communicating
  • Use gestures, symbols, signs in combination with or in place of speech, to persuade, negotiate, give opinions or discuss ideas
  • Communicate imaginatively in structured and unstructured activities
Complementary content for alternative communication forms: Understanding and using grammar when interacting
  • Communicate using short phrases and simple sentences represented by gestures, symbols, signs in combination with or in place of speech
  • Connect 2 or more ideas when communicating
  • Communicate ideas from the past using gestures, symbols, signs in combination with or in place of speech
  • Use gestures, symbols, signs in combination with or in place of speech, to connect and elaborate on ideas when retelling and creating stories
Complementary content for alternative communication forms: Oral narrative
  • Present a story or information to peers or adults using gestures, symbols, signs in combination with or in place of speech
  • Retell favourite stories, poems, songs and rhymes using gestures, symbols, signs in combination with or in place of speech
Listening for understanding
  • Understand that oral language can be used in combination with nonverbal communication
  • Understand when a message is not clear and ask questions and/or gesture to elicit support and/or seek clarification
  • Follow extended instructions that contain connectives and conjunctions
  • Listen to or engage with texts for enjoyment and recognise that their own experience can shape their ideas and opinions of texts
  • Respond to information by asking relevant questions to extend their own and others' knowledge
Social and learning interactions
  • Initiate, listen and/or respond in partner and group conversations
  • Interact to evaluate ideas and refine meaning
  • Use a range of strategies for effective dialogue and manage digression from a topic
Understanding and using grammar when interacting
  • Incorporate extended sentences (simple, compound, complex) during dialogue
  • Organise key ideas in logical sequence
  • Use adjectives and adverbs to elaborate and/or provide some supporting details or justifications and express causal relationships
  • Use tense correctly to discuss past, present and future events
  • Link or compare ideas when interacting
Oral narrative
  • Recite poems and rhymes
  • Recount narratives with key components
  • Adapt a narrative for a particular audience
  • Deliver a planned narrative to an audience for specific contexts and purposes
Complementary content for alternative communication forms: Understanding and using grammar when interacting
  • Communicate extended ideas or sentences using gestures, symbols, signs, in combination with or in place of speech, during dialogue
  • Communicate ideas in the past, present and future using gestures, symbols, signs, in combination with or in place of speech
  • Use gestures, symbols, signs, in combination with or in place of speech, to link or compare ideas
Complementary content for alternative communication forms: Oral narrative
  • Use gestures, symbols, signs, in combination with or in place of speech, to engage with poems and rhymes
  • Recount a narrative with key components using gestures, symbols, signs, in combination with or in place of speech
  • Adapt a narrative for a particular audience using gestures, symbols, signs, in combination with or in place of speech
  • Use gestures, symbols, signs, in combination with or in place of speech to deliver a planned narrative to an audience for specific contexts and purposes
source: English K–10 | NSW Curriculum | NSW Education Standards Authority
updated February 2026
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