by Catherine Delamain & Jill Spring
It contains a collection of graded games and activities designed to foster the speaking, listening and understanding skills of children aged from 5 to 7.
Full Description:
Winner of the 2004 Education Resources: Primary Books Award
Highly Commended in the Books for Learning & Teaching category of the 2004 TES/NASEN Special Needs Book Awards
Winner in the Pre-tertiary category of the British Book Design & Production Awards 2004
Written by two experienced speech & language therapists, who have worked extensively alongside mainstream teachers, this book provides activities that are both teacher and child friendly.
It contains a collection of graded games and activities designed to foster the speaking, listening and understanding skills of children aged from 5 to 7.
The activities are divided into two main areas:
Understanding Spoken Language: Following Instructions; Getting the Main Idea; Thinking Skills; Developing Vocabulary; Understanding Inference.
Using Spoken Language: Narrating; Describing; Explaining; Predicting; Playing with Words.
All activities are easy to fit in to the daily classroom programme, and each activity has a clear aim, simple instructions, and requires minimal equipment.
The book is user friendly and accessible, not only for teachers and speech & language therapists, but also for teaching assistants and volunteers
Incorporates opportunities for assessment, target setting and evaluation and includes photocopiable material to support the activities.
Promotes the skills outlined in the speaking and listening section of the National Curriculum English Key Stage One.
This is an attractive and innovative resource that should find its place in every Reception and Key Stage One classroom, and on the shelf of every Speech and Language Therapist working collaboratively with schools.
Contents
Preface and Introduction; How to Use this Book; Receptive Language Activities; Expressive Language Activities; Activity Resources; Optional Record Sheets.
Readership
Teachers, speech & language therapists, special educational needs co-ordinators, literacy and numeracy advisors working with 5 to 7 year olds.
About the authors
Catherine Delamain has forty years' experience of working with young children. She is currently collaborating in the design of a training programme to help mainstream teachers meet the needs of pupils with speech and language difficulties. Jill Spring is a Senior Clinician, specialising in speech and language difficulties in children, and the impact of those difficulties on their learning. She is actively involved in providing training for teachers, classroom assistants, health visitors, and those involved in nursery education.
312pp, wire-o-bound
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