Spoken Language

From maitrilearning:

• • Natural conversations
  • Conversations at a picture
  • Poetry (memorized)
  • Songs (memorized)
  • Books
  • Reading classified books (e.g., At the Market)
  • Reading literature (e.g., The Dot)
  • True stories
  • Listen & Do
  • Furnishings & surroundings
  • Names of the exercises
  • Objects within exercises
  • Classifications (e.g., all brushes)
  • Entire exercise (all parts)
  • Double commands (touch the third rod and pick up the smallest brown stair)
  • Spoken classification (e.g., think of fruits)
  • Question games
  • News periods
  • Holiday discussions
  • 3-period lessons
  • Parts of the body
  • Sensorial material language
  • Classified vocabulary cards (groups of things)
  • Naming
  • Discussing (elicit definition)
  • Sorting
  • Matching
  • Sorting & Matching
  • Sound games
    • Level 1: Beginning sounds
    • Level 2: Beginning & ending sounds
    • Level 3: Beginning, ending, and any other sounds
    • Level 4; Beginning, ending, and every other sound

Notes: Lasts 3-5 minutes; Always teacher led; When children are
consistently successful with Level 1, introduce the sandpaper letters; When they have mastered the sandpaper letters AND are consistently successful with Level 4 sound games, introduce the movable alphabet