Gladly Teaching/Gladly Talking Toolkit

Gladly Talking With the Tree Map

Help your language learners TALK → THINK → WRITE with confidence.

Quiet doesn’t mean they don’t understand, it means they don’t have the words.

You can preview vocabulary. You can read the text together. You can model the response. You can give sentence frames. But if students don’t have the language organized in their minds, they can’t use it. Not orally, not in writing, not in reading.

They freeze because nothing “fits” yet. They need structure, categories, meaning.
They need a way to see how vocabulary connects.

They need a Tree Map.

Why the Tree Map Works

  • It organizes vocabulary visually

  • It helps them SEE connections between ideas

  • It gives them the words before you expect them to respond

  • It supports oral language → reading → writing

  • It takes away the “I don’t know what to say” freeze

  • It works in ANY lesson, any subject, any grade

When the language becomes clear, the thinking becomes clear. And when the thinking is clear, the writing finally flows.

Imagine This…

  • Your students confidently talking about content instead of sitting silent.

  • Your ELLs using academic vocabulary without being prompted.

  • Your whole class contributing because they finally have the words.
    Writing that builds itself because the language foundation is there.

Imagine lessons where you aren’t dragging language out of them. They OWN it. This is the missing piece.

What You Get Inside The Gladly Talking Toolkit

✔ A ready-to-use Tree Map you can drop into ANY lesson
✔ Step-by-step guidance for using it with multilingual learners
✔ Prompts and language supports to get students TALKING
✔ Examples of how to move from oral language → writing
✔ Real classroom applications

✔ Extension ideas for reading, writing, and content areas

You can learn it in 10 minutes, and you’ll use it forever.

Perfect For…

  • K–5 teachers

  • ELL/multilingual learners

  • Content areas (science, social studies, math, reading, writing)

  • Mixed-level classrooms

  • Teachers who want more student TALKING + THINKING

  • Teachers tired of blank stares during discussion

  • Anyone who wants writing to feel natural, not forced

Ready to help your students actually talk, think, and write with confidence?

(Instant access. Start using it tomorrow.)

  • $22

Gladly Talking Toolkit

Your students aren’t silent because they have nothing to say. They’re silent because the language isn’t organized yet. The Gladly Talking Toolkit gives you a simple Tree Map strategy to build vocabulary, support oral language, and turn talk into writing. You’ll get a downloadable guide, videos of the strategy in action, and a clear walkthrough. It takes 10 minutes to learn and becomes a go-to support in any lesson.

Kelly - NSD School District

"I watched Jennica use this in a demo and I couldn’t believe how she took an entering student into talking using a complete sentence! It was so simple. I did this immediately and got the same results with my students. WOW"

Amika- SPS

"I have told all the teachers about this strategy and more importantly, everyone is using it to get huger quality writing! It starts with blank paper! When Jennica said zero prep, she meant it.”