To provide practice in oral expression.
Two common objects placed in separate closed boxes.
Paper and pencils.
Volunteer and child each choose a box and try to guess what is in the box without opening it. When each feels they have an answer, they tell a story in the first person pretending that they are the object captured in the box. Exchange stories and then open the boxes.
To provide for oral expression.
Waxed paper, sandpaper, cotton, satin, corduroy, velvet, steel wool and anything else with a texture.
Have the child run their fingers over one item. Encourage them to describe the feeling using a variety of words. Proceed with remaining items.
To provide practice in oral expression. To provide practice in arranging ideas to create a story and learn beginning, middle and ending phrases such as first, then, third, finally etc.
Envelope with the story title written on the outside, for example “How to make an ice-cream sundae”. 4 picture cards showing different stages of the story.
Choose an envelope and tell the student the title of the story. Explain that their job is to arrange the pictures in the correct order and tell the story. First, have them examine the pictures closely and see if they can describe what is happening. Encourage them to add description for example– Who is in the story? Where are they? What do they look like etc. Next ask the student to put the tiles in order and have them tell the story.
There are 5 different stories to choose from: