Interviewing students forces them to develop thoughts verbally before responding. You can give such a lesson by exposing students to a novel stimulus, such as an educational video. After students have finished viewing the video, interview the students one-by-one on their thoughts regarding the content. Such an interview style puts pressure on individual students, forcing them to rely only on their own thoughts to develop responses.
A lesson that combines writing skills with verbal thinking skills can produce stronger results than lessons without writing involved. Due to the fact that there is less time constraint on giving written responses as opposed to oral responses, students have more leeway in their verbal thinking patterns. A lesson on shared writing would require students to create original content, such as guided narratives suited for younger students. After students finish their works, you can then request that they present their work.
Grammar lessons often give students new tools to incorporate into their verbal thought processes. In a grammar lesson focused on improving primary students’ verbal idea creation, you should present language principles that allow students to rethink how they express certain ideas. One example especially suited to primary students is that of the active and passive voices. There are certain implications involved when presenting facts in one form or another. By teaching your students these implications, they broaden their set of thinking tools.
Primary students tend to be lacking in vocabulary sets that match on denotation but not on connotation. Presenting the idea of connotation implicitly to students allows them greater access to verbal expressiveness. You can create a vocabulary lesson for this purpose. For example, you may choose to focus on the vocabulary related to the senses, telling students the differences in connotation, or “feeling,” among words such as “odor,” “fragrant” and “scent.” As practice, students can give short presentations using the new vocabulary to describe certain emotional events in their lives.