Listen Up -Adapted from Pica, Rae. (2007). Moving and learning through curriculum. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning.
Materials
- No materials needed
- Tell the students that you're going to give them 3 different words, all beginning with the letter s, and that each word has a different action. (Words can be anything you are studying- science vocabulary, elements of a story, aspects of a novel study, spelling words etc.)
- When they hear you say a certain word, they have to create an action word for it and then act it out and say it. Repeat this process for the next two words.
- When the students have the actions for each of the words say a certain word and wait for the students to respond appropriately.
- Play the game for as long as the children stay interested, constantly mixing up the order of the words.
- Can easily modify by adding in additional words beginning with s, for which the students are not expected to perform and action (i.e. sandwich, snowshoe, sink, smile and submarine.)
- Could also modify and have the students act out all of the words.
- Play the game with words beginning with other letters.
- GLO 2.1 Use Strategies and Cues
- Use prior knowledge
- Use phonics and structural analysis
- GLO 4.1 Enhance and Improve
- Expand knowledge of language
- GLO 4.3 Present and Share
- Demonstrate attentive listening and viewing