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Topic “TAP37-54”

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	Print out the adjective symbol boards. 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. You go first to model how to carry out the activity. Choose and object/picture to put in the bag. Give a description of the item - model using the symbol boards to find words you could use to describe the item. 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.	Login or register to see the instructions for this activity.

Strategies for eliciting single words/short phrases/gestures

Activity name/materials

Instructions

Comments

Wrong picture names!

Materials:

Set of pictures of everyday objects - these should be cards that the child knows the names of

Number action rhymes

Below are some action number rhymes which you can use to develop children’s understanding of numbers and also encourage them to initiate and continue the song/interaction with you.

Remember to sing these songs a few times with your child and show them how to move their hands/body by modelling it yourself.

Text mangle tool

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What this tool is for

The purpose of this tool is to be able to get a flavour of:

What an early reader might get from text;
What can be gained from text where only a selected number of high frequency words are used;
How a strategy of signing could assist comprehension;
Or...to create your own Jaberwocky poem!

See the comments page for more information on this tool.

Reading your school or college timetable

Activity name and materials required

Common irregular past tense verbs

These can be used with activities sheets from www.commtap.org including:

Some common irregular past tense verbs for use in the above activities

See below if you are not sure what an irregular past tense verb is.

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