Language
- Concepts (4 ideas)
- Grammar (1 idea)
- Information-carrying words (5 ideas)
- Prepositions (1 idea)
- Verbs (4 ideas)
- Vocabulary (9 ideas)
19 ideas for target: Language
- Animal puppets
Imagine and describe what a puppet can do. - Colouring game
Follow instructions to colour in a worksheet - Dice phrases
Roll a dice to choose a character and roll another dice to choose an action. - Drawing from instructions
Children follow verbal instructions, to produce a copy of the original picture. - Drawing: for others to guess
Draw a picture, so others can guess the word. - Dressing Up Game
A motivating group dressing up game to develop early receptive and expressive language and social skills. - Everybody do this
Giving and receiving instructions from peers - Feeding teddy and doll
Classic instruction following activity for younger children - First, next and last.
Brainstorm all the stages / steps of an activity then sequence them using the headings ‘first’ ‘next’ and ‘last.’ - Hidden coin
A coin is hidden under one of a set of verb pictures, children must describe the picture before they can look underneath for the coin. - My favourite… (sparkly ring)
Simple group game to practise generating vocabulary, using a prop. - Newspaper headlines
Guess the news story from the headline only. - Same and different
Choose 2 pictures and explain one way they are the same and one way they are different - Shopping baskets
Children remember which items they are required to buy, put them in their basket and then say what they have bought. - Talking for 1 minute
Talking for 1 minute about a given topic - Tell a story from two pictures
Choose 2 pictures and make up a story about them. - Tube posting
Posting toy cars or balls down a long cardboard tube - Video yourself communicating
Raising awareness of communication difficulties for clients with cognitive deficits in order to facilitate goal-setting - What am I?
Ask questions in order to guess what object / item / person you are!