Unit 4: The Power of Language
4.4 Planning an Activity for your own Context
This final activity focuses on planning a multi-sensory language learning activity in your own care context, which you will then discuss and evaluate with your fellow students during your next online tutorial.
a. In order to prepare for this, read some of our ideas for a language session using images and games.
b. Now plan some activities for your own language learning session that use either the Our Story App or your own or your senior learners’ objects / photos / memories as a resource. Write a brief reflective account to explain:
- why you have chosen the activity/ies
- in what way the session/activity is multi-sensory
- what props and materials you want to use and why
- what you would like to achieve with them
- which words/phrases you want the senior learners to learn
- how you plan to carry out the activity with your learners, including practical aspects
- what you want the record of the learning to look like.
You may want to start filling in this
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(download) with your ideas which provides a useful format to capture your plans.
Keep a record of your ideas in your learning diary and bring this along to the Unit 4 tutorial, even if you have only managed to take a few notes and have not had time to prepare this in more depth.