Program Structure

TEL Ted: Whole Class sessions expose students to vocabulary and narrative through action songs, teacher-led games, stories, sequencing activities and more. The activities are grouped into six topics: My Body, Things We Wear, People Who Help Us, Growing, Journey and Time.

Each session includes an introduction to settle the students into the session and encourage active listening, a section on narrative or vocabulary and a consolidation section to reinforce what you have covered in the session. We recommend schools deliver three 20-minute Whole Class sessions per week.

Program Materials

The TEL Ted: Whole Class sessions include a bank of activities so the teacher can select the activities they wish to deliver according to the needs and interest of their class, and whether they are looking to focus on vocabulary or narrative skill development.

Schools will receive a Teacher Guide (providing comprehensive session guidance, a bank of session activities, flashcard games, and photocopiable record forms and activity sheets), colorful digital slides, printable narrative sequencing cards to use in class and at home, songs and audio stories.

Schools first complete their oral language assessment to measure the language skills of all students.

Then begin to deliver the weekly group and individual sessions for those students who require the intervention.

Alongside these targeted sessions schools also deliver related whole class instruction activities.

Reassess all students at the end of the year to see oral language development and measure the impact of TEL Ted.