Where Are You on Your Oral Language Journey?

Discover your strengths. Find your focus. Make a difference.

Every school and early learning service is at a different stage of its oral language journey. Whether you're building strong foundations, exploring new approaches or looking to create lasting change, understanding your starting point is the first step.

Take our quick quiz to discover your team's oral language improvement persona and receive personalised recommendations, practical next steps and support options from Coactive Education to help your learners thrive.

1. What has prompted you to focus on oral language now?

What are your seeing at your centre/school (pick as many as apply)

We're noticing more children struggling to express themselves or understand others.

We want to identify oral language needs earlier, before they affect learning.

We already have good practices but want to take them to the next level.

Our team is noticing different needs but isn't sure how best to respond.

We want a more consistent, whole-school or whole-service approach.

We've identified oral language as a priority in our improvement planning.

2. Which children would you initially like to focus on?

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Who are your priority tamariki?

Children transitioning into school or between learning stages.

Our youngest learners, to build strong foundations early.

A particular group of children with identified language needs.

Multilingual learners who would benefit from additional support.

Children across several age groups or year levels.

All children, through a whole-school or whole-service approach.

3. How do you currently identify and respond to children's oral language needs?

Pick your most used techniques

We mainly rely on everyday observations and professional judgement

We use learning stories, documentation or developmental observations.

We use structured screening or assessment tools.

We provide targeted teaching or small-group interventions.

We work with specialists or external support services.

We're still developing a consistent way to identify and respond to needs.

4. What would you most like to improve for children over the next six months?

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Select as many as you'd like

Understanding instructions, questions and spoken language.

Confidence expressing ideas, feelings and needs

Building vocabulary and using more complex language.

Having conversations, listening and taking turns.

Storytelling, sequencing and explaining their thinking.

Participating confidently in learning, relationships and play.

5. Where would your team most value in their professional learning and support?

Select as many as you'd like

Recognising oral language needs and identifying children who need support.

Using screening tools and interpreting assessment results.

Planning and delivering targeted oral language teaching.

Strengthening everyday conversations and language-rich interactions.

Supporting multilingual learners and partnering with whānau.

Tracking progress and building a consistent team-wide approach.