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Topic “Early Years (0-5yrs)”
Early Years (0 to 5 years)
Games and activities to help develop social skills
various contributors
Created 2 May 2012; updated 23 March 2022.
Prepositions
Prepositions are words which show the relationship between a noun (e.g. "cat") or a pronoun (e.g. "she") and other words in the sentence. For example, "My cat is on the table", "I went with Mike to the cinema". Prepositions can indicate relationships in time and position as well as other types of relationships. Information about prepositions (about.com).
Smiley face group progress sheet
Neil Thompson
Quick therapy/lesson evaluation sheet - using a rating scale of four smiley faces.
The idea is for the child/person to evaluate themselves in terms of how well they were able to do the activity. This helps the person running the activity to select harder or easier activities as time progresses - keeping them at a level where there is generally a high degree of success.
Created 16 February 2012; updated 16 July 2015.
Activities to develop understanding of a negative and a noun, e.g. "no hat"
| Activity/strategy name and materials required | How to do the activity | Key principles for doing the activity and comments |
|---|---|---|
| Dressing up - Some everyday clothes eg hat, gloves, scarf, sun glasses - Large soft toy - Digital camera or phone with a camera. |
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| - |
Key Word Signing
Key word signing is used with people with communication and/or learning difficulties. Key word signing is always done whilst speaking, and you use it to sign the most important words that you are saying at an appropriate level for the person you are signing with.
Activities Sheet Template
admin
This is a Word template which can be used to make an activities sheet in the standard format used on the Commtap site.
Created 7 October 2011; updated 16 July 2015.
Commtap Logo
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The Commtap logo.
Nose
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Nose graphic.
Letter set (i h j k)
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Set of four letters (i, h, j, k).
Part of a letter rainbow
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First few letters of a letter rainbow.
Letter rainbow
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Letter rainbow.
because sentence frame
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Three part sentence frame example linking phrases with because.
have-am-will table
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Table to help choose the right words to use for past, present and future tenses.
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