This practical resource provides early years professionals and foundation teachers with games, activities and strategies to incorporate language into movement. The premise is that learning language concepts through movement will help all children, particularly especially those who might have language delays or coming from non-English-speaking backgrounds.
Section one provides whole class and individual movement activities to enable children to learn single-word concepts and simple phrases. Section two contains concept games and development motor movements activities and ideas that will help develop the physical process needed in learning language.
Educators, teachers and learning assistants can easily implement these ideas to their programs and be equipped with the knowledge and confidence to help children develop language through movement and active play.
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction
Section one: single-word concepts
start/stop
up/down
above/below
right/left
top/bottom
forward/backward
inside/outside
before/after
same/different
to/from
front/behind
on/under
over/next to
thin/wide
big/small
high/low
hard/soft
slow/fast
begin/end
once/again
first/last
second/third
whole/part
all/half
more/less
almost/as many
corner/row
with/at
across/diagonal
straight/curved
match/mirror
through/between
side/middle
around/near
towards/away
heavy/light
jerky/smooth
twisted/curled
boundary/along
beside/beyond
Section two: developmental motor movements
Concept games
Letter grids
Number grids
Body awareness
Tactile stimulation
Dominance
Isometrics
Alphabet images
Gross motor – locomotor activities
Non-locomotor activities
Bouncing sequences
Fine motor activities
Wrist exercises
Hand and finger exercises
Finger plays and action games
Finger dexterity activities
Cutting activities
Pre-writing activities
Drawing activities
Playing commercial games
Over de auteur
Debra Armstrong taught in government primary and specialist schools for most of her career. She was a classroom teacher and an art andphysical education specialist teacher. She has won various awards, fellowships and lecturered at Monash University. Debra is an experiencedco-author who has written a number of teacher resources.
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