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Topic “Early Years (0-5yrs)”  

Early Years (0 to 5 years)

Emotion symbols

Emotion symbols

You can find more emotions symbols in the Commtap Symboliser for PowerPoint.

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l at the beginning of words sentence dice

l at the beginning of words sentence dice
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Sentence sound dice

Sentence sound dice
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Sentence sound dice

This page contains links to download and print sentence sound dice. The instructions for this acitivy can be found by clicking here.

Sentence Sound Dice

Short Sounds

 

- c/k at the beginning of words

- g at the beginning of words 

Long Sounds

 

Nasal Slounds

 

Glide Sounds

Characters 3 story telling dice

Characters 3 story telling dice
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characters 2 story telling dice

characters 2 story telling dice
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Characters 1 story telling dice

Characters 1 story telling dice
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m at the beginning of words barrier game

m at the beginning of words barrier game
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l at the beginning of words barrier game

l at the beginning of words barrier game
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To be able to describe objects using a variety of adjectives/descriptive words

Activity/strategy name and materials required How to do the activity Key principles for doing the activity and comments
What's in the bag?

- adjective symbol boards - click here to print

- a variety of objects or pictures - click below for a selection of pictures:

     - clothes

     - animals

     - food

     - transport

     - toys

- a bag

  1. Print out the adjective symbol boards.
  2. Explain to your child/student that you are going to take turns to put and object/picture in the bag and give clues to the other person to guess what it is. Explain you are ging to practice using lots of different words to describe the item.
  3. You go first to model how to carry out the activity. Choose and object/picture to put in the bag.
  4. Give a description of the item - model using the symbol boards to find words you could use to describe the item.
  5. Encourage the child to guess and then swap roles.

Make sure your child/student has an understanding of the basic concepts, e.g. heavy/light, hard/soft before playing this game.

 

To make this activity easier, you could give your child/student a selection of pictures they can look at while you are giving clues to see if they can find the one you are describing.

Label a picture

- A selection of photographs or pictures of objects - you could cut them out from a newspaper, magazine or catalogue.

- Paper

- Glue

- Optional - adjective symbol charts - click here to print.

Adjective symbol boards

Adjective symbol boards

Other adjective symbols are available in the Commtap Symboliser.

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To be able to find objects that go together

Activity/strategy name and materials required How to do the activity Key principles for doing the activity and comments
Matching game
  1. Print and cut out the things that go together cards.
  2. Split the cards into two piles, making sure one of each pair is in a different pile. 
  3. Lay one pile of cards on the table in front of you.
  4. Explain to your child that you will take turns at choosing a card and then searching for the item that goes togeher with it.
  5. You may need to model a turn.
  6. When you turn the card over, name the item.
  7. When you find the item that goes with it, name that item too and explain why they go togeher, e.g. 'fork and knife - you use them both to eat your dinner.
  8. Continue until all the pairs have matched up.

Things that go together cards

Things that go together cards
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Story telling dice pirate places

Story telling dice pirate places
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Story telling dice pirate objects

Story telling dice pirate objects
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