Language Trails-Primary: Games for Promoting Effective Communication Skills-Save! (#49955-IN7)

Ages 5 through 8. Help children improve vocabulary usage and communicative competence using the high-interest games and activities in this kit. The game activities target category words/concepts, vocabulary definitions, and interactive communication.

Between 2 and 6 students can play at one time. The five card decks provide language activities in the areas below:

• Category Words and Concepts. This deck addresses children's abilities to think about basic categories and classifications. Example: Name something that crawls.
• Daily Living Words and Concepts. This deck focuses on children's knowledge of basic facts or "world knowledge." Example: The sweetener that insects make is called __________.
• Vocabulary Definitions. This deck focuses on common words and their meanings. Example: What is a city?
• Interactive/Pragmatic. This deck focuses on various types of social exchanges as children make requests, give information, and direct others in an interactive context. Example: Ask a person near you what his or her middle name is.
• Create a Question. This deck focuses on questioning skills as children create their own questions from pictured stimuli. Example: What do we use a nail for?

The game facilitates the development of communicative competence by focusing on three primary areas of interpersonal interaction: pragmatics, semantics, and world knowledge.

The kit includes a full color playing board, five card decks, and a spinner.

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