What is this? What is that? This is a… That is a…
Rebecca Ladhams
| GRADE LEVEL: | Special Education |
| SKILLS: | Listening, speaking |
| TIME: | Lesson plan |
| MATERIALS: | 2 buckets, sheets of different colored paper to screw up into balls, pictures of animals/Halloween characters/Christmassy things |
| OBJECTIVES: | To learn ‘this is a…’ and ‘that is a…’ and the difference between them |
PROCEDURE:
1. At the start of class teach this and that by pointing near you for ‘this’ and away for ‘that.’
2. Play a game where you go around the circle saying ‘this’, if somebody says ‘that’ change direction.
3. Use two buckets. Mark one ‘this’ and the other one ‘that’. Place ‘this’ nearer the students and ‘that’ further away. Have two cards one with ‘this’ on and one with ‘that’ on. The students have scrunched up paper balls – a different color each. The student picks a card. If they pick ‘this’ they can throw there ball into the nearest bucket. If they pick ‘that’ they must throw it to the furthest. The one who gets the most number of balls in the bucket wins.
4. Teach the vocabulary you want to use in the remainder of the lesson. I taught this near Halloween so I used pictures of a ‘witch’, ‘ghost’, ‘monster’, ‘cat’, ‘Jack O Lantern’, ‘zombie,’ ‘werewolf’. Next ask the students to choose a costume/picture and introduce/ practice asking them ‘What’s this?’ pointing to your picture. Encourage them to answer ‘That’s a…’ You then ask them ‘What’s that…? Encourage them to answer ‘This is a…’ Once they have learnt this you can move onto the game.
5. Line students up in a row. One person is ‘It’ and stands opposite them at the other end if the room with their backs to them. The students in the line start walking forwards. The person who’s it will turn round every now and then. If they see anybody actually in the process of moving they will point to them and ask ‘What’s that?’ This person answers ‘This is a…’ The person who’s ‘It’ then asks ‘What’s this?’ pointing to their picture/costume, the person caught moving replies ‘That’s a…’ This continues until the winner is the student who sneaks up and touches the person who’s ‘It’ first.
NOTES:
As you can probably tell, I made these games up myself. Sharing them with you may encourage you to make your own up as I find that thinking of lessons that work for your specific Special Education group size/abilities can be trying.
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