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