It provides educators with a resource for developing children's adjective knowledge and use in playful and child-friendly manner.
Each of the 18 stories of four cards, each of which focuses on an adjective commonly used during everyday communication. Each story works with two different opposite pairs. The stories can be used to practice 70 adjectives representing 35 pairs of opposites that target the acquisition of basic descriptive vocabulary.
The focus of each card dis a target sentence that contains a specific adjectives. Skillfull questioning can be used to support a child in finding the correct word. Because each story contains two opposite pairs, two related cards can be compared to enable children to work out the adjectives to be found.
Learning Goals / Learning Steps:
Knowing and using important adjectives
Knowing and recognising adjective opposite pairs
Describing everyday scenarios
Recognising and describing picture details on the cards
Therapy / Lesson Suggestions:
Finding the opposite of a given adjective
Using this adjective to describe other things or people and formulating semantically and grammatically coherent sentences
Thinking of relevant adjective-noun combinations using definite and indefinite articles
Formulating adjectival, adverbial and predicate phrases
Learning to use comparatives and superlatives
Describing picture details on the cards
Talking about own experiences
Using role play to act out everyday activities shown on the picture cards and describing them step by step using relevant adjectives
Finding solutions to every day problems children might experience (e.g. jealousy, making up, illness, poverty, losing someone close, overcoming tears, and so on)
Includes:
18 colourful picture stories, each consisting of 4 individual cards, 72 picture cards in total
card size 9 x 9 cm
instructions
Stories:
A New Bike (new/old, big/small)
Jumping Puddles (wet/dry, cross/happy)
In the Countryside (black/white, wild/tame)
Good Dreams - Bad Dream (ugly/beautiful, bad/good)