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Topic “Secondary (11-16yrs)”
Secondary school age (11-16 years)
Activities for comprehension of concepts
Created 19 November 2015; updated 25 November 2015.
Prompts for a simple conversation
gemma47
These cards contain prompts to guide someone through a simple three turn conversation. Each one contains a question, followed by a starter for a response, and then a comment responding to that response. You can take either role in the conversation (the person asking the question and giving the comment at the end, or the person answering the question).
Note, the pictures used in this resource are from Widget (Communicate in Print 2).
Created 15 July 2015.
Work out how likely an assessment result could have been achieved by chance
A calculator that you can use to work out how likely that a child/adult could have come up with a score in an assessment test by chance. For example, suppose you had 12 pairs of pictures, and a child was able to point to 9 of them correctly from an instruction - is that a good result or not? No hard maths involved!
Work out how likely an assessment result could have been achieved by chance
various contributors
Created 6 May 2015; updated 7 September 2015.
Use a simple conversational structure over three turns
| Activity/strategy name and materials required | How to do the activity | Key principles for doing the activity and comments |
|---|---|---|
| How are you? | Two turns
Three turns Once two turns is mastered as above, move to three turns:
| For the three turns part, if a student makes a different response to the answer to their question than one of the possible responses on the prompt cards then that's fine as long as it is relevant. Otherwise, prompt them to make a response from one of the prompt cards. You could show different prompt cards, or you could show just one prompt card for the response in the last turn. |
| What have you been doing? | For this activity, a student using a contraction of the question is also fine (e.g. "What doing"), this activity is about creating turns in a conversation. | |
| Topic of interest - what have you got? Prompt cards for a "what have you got" conversation Set of pictures (e.g from Google) relating to a topic of interest to the student - e.g. Tesco, the park, Eastenders. |
What have you got - conversation prompt pictures
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Prompt pictures for three turns in a conversation beginning "What have you got?"
You can find different symbols in the Commtap Symboliser for PowerPoint.
What have you just done - conversation prompt pictures
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Prompt pictures for three turns in a conversation beginning "What have you just done/What were you doing (before you came here)?"
You can find different symbols in the Commtap Symboliser for PowerPoint
How are you conversation prompt pictures
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Prompt pictures for three turns in a conversation beginning "How are you?"
List of common synonyms
Some common synonyms:
| Woman | Lady |
| Road | Street |
| Rug | Mat |
| Flower | Bloom |
The Chute
The chute is a special/fun posting box which is designed for posting cards with something on each side. You post it with one side facing up, and it pops out of the bottom showing the other side. You could use this for phonology work for example, having picture cards with the initial sound written on the back. The pupil says the initial sound for the picture, posts the card and checks if they were right from the card when it comes out the bottom.
How to make the chute
You will need:
The Chute
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The chute - a special kind of posting box.
Diagram of the Chute
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Diagram of the chute - a special kind of posting box.
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