Primary Classroom Language Activities for Special Students (Primary CLASS) (#49968-IN)
Ages 5 through 8. Build language skills as children learn about their community, environment, animals, plants, natural resources, and other topics. Each activity targets one or more language skills as children learn information emphasized within the classroom curriculum. Subject matter from science, math, social studies, and the language arts is used to build language skills.
Primary CLASS includes four sections (Math, Social Studies, Science, and Language Arts) The sections are divided into 10 units and the units include a total of 33 lessons. Individual lessons range in length from 2 to 10 pages.
The teacher-directed activities are designed to stimulate active involvement in learning and motivate students to discover new knowledge independently.
The activities stimulate oral communication and the development of language skills that are necessary to perform academic tasks within the classroom. Science activities, for example, build vocabulary as students learn about plants and animals. Physical science lessons challenge students to use adjectives to describe physical features, compare and classify natural resources, etc. Math activities build an understanding of concepts such as more than and equal to.
You'll find that the lessons in this book help students improve both oral and academic language skills using activities that build knowledge of curriculum content.
Examples of skills emphasized:
- Understanding more than, less than, and equal to
- Understanding time concepts
- Understanding and naming direction words
- Using written communication skills
- Following oral and written directions
- Understanding ecology terms
- Understanding the concept of rhyming words
- Dividing words into syllables
- Identifying and understanding the parts of speech
- Locating problems and solutions in stories
- Distinguishing between nouns, verbs, and adjectives
- Understanding story parts
Reproducible worksheets are included.