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The Lesson
Whole Class Teaching
Invite children to come and put one hand in the feely bag and describe
the toy without giving its name. Ask them to tell the class:
Q What it is made from - is there more than one material?
Q What does it do?
Q Do any parts move?
Do the class think they have been given enough information to decide what
it might be?
Take the toy out of the bag and ask the children for additional information
to describe the toy without using its name.
The teacher explains to the pupils that they are going to create a game.
Each pair of children is going to record a description of their toy, without
saying what it is called. After this has been done we will listen to the
recordings and see if we can guess which toy is being described.
Teacher opens the ready made Textease - Jumpingtalk.t2
in order to demonstrate to the class what they are going to do today.
Click to play the sound recording of the description. Can the children
guess which toy from the collection on the page is being described?
Scroll down to the second page of Textease and click to play a short video
of a child describing the Jumping Jack and how it moves without giving
its name.
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Main Activity
The teacher may wish to have the computers turned on, with Textease open,
prior to the start of the lesson.
In order to ensure that there is a wide range of different kinds of toys
in the game the teacher may wish to allocate each pair of children with
a toy they have brought/from the classroom collection.
The teacher should give the children the opportunity with their partner
or group to think of the ways in which they can describe their toy without
giving its name.
The teacher needs to demonstrate how to record a sound file in Textease.
Open a new file select Tools > Record a sound
Click the red button to begin to record a sound and the blue horizontal
bar to stop recording. If children wish to re-record their description
they should drag round the sound icon to select it and then press delete.
Alternatively they could just close the file without saving it and open
a new one.
The teacher should expect that children may need several attempts before
they are happy with their description. They should then save their file,
with help if necessary.
The teacher may wish for pupils to write a short description of their
toy, on the same page as their sound recording, to accompany their sound
file.
Optional - On another occasion a teaching assistant, or another adult,
may insert a digital photograph of each pair's toy into their Textease
file.
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Plenary
Display the toys which have been used in the main activity. Open a group's
file, play the sound recording and ask the class if they can identify
which toy is being described.
Q Which were the most useful words in this description?
Q Can you think of any other words which could have been used to describe
this toy?
You may wish to use this game with another class.
Draw children back together and recap the correct sequence of images.
Why use ICT
Demonstrating
Using ICT the teacher can effectively demonstrate to the whole class how
the children will create their recording describing their toy.
Presenting, re-presenting and communicating
Recording sound files provides children with opportunities for presenting
and re-presenting information in an exciting and engaging way, creating
motivating outcomes. These can easily be modified and re-recorded in order
to improve their descriptions following discussions with children.
The sound files created in electronic format can be re-presented to other
groups of children to support speaking and listening. This not only provides
a medium for presentation and communication, but also opens possibilities
of many new, "real" audiences.
ICT allows children to combine text, images and sound files to describe
their toy, something that would be impossible without ICT.
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