Dice phrases

Roll a dice to choose a character and roll another dice to choose an action.

Activity
Selection → Lucky dip
Target
  • Language → Information-carrying words
  • Language → Verbs
Abstract
To expand utterances from one to two words, the child rolls two dice to make a phrase and then acts it out.
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Directions

Take a wooden building block and stick a picture of an animal (for which you have corresponding toys) on each face. If you don’t have six animals you can always duplicate.

Take another building block and stick a picture of an action which the child could feasibly act out with the toy animals e.g. eat, jump, sleep, walk, on each face. If you don’t have six feasible verbs you can always duplicate.

Ask the child to roll the “character” dice then the “action” dice to make a two word phrase. Model the phrase then show the corresponding toy acting out the verb shown on the dice.

Once modelled, ask the child to say the phrase and act out the phrase with the toys.

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