Oral Language Games: The Gallant Ship

About this teaching resource

Oral Language Games get the whole class talking, thinking, moving and collaborating.

Introduce your students to ring and line games that have been played by generations of children, now with 21^st century updates.

Each game is based on a rhyme that children chant as the game is played. Some games can be played in a circle space in the classroom, whilst other games are made for the great outdoor spaces of the school oval.

Oral Language Games include: How to Play instructions, a copy of the Rhyme (A4, enlarge to A3), game tools

These games help to build: oral language, collaboration, listening skills, vocabulary, wondering, innovations, explorations and community.

The Gallant Ship is a quick-paced active game, acting out the story of the gallant ship. Link to history, research and exploration.