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Language activity pack

Language activity pack


Contents

1. How to use this pack

2. Blanks level 1 activity ideas

3. Blanks level 2 activity ideas

4. Blanks level 3 activity ideas

5. Blanks level 4 activity ideas

6. Picture resources
1. How to use this pack
This pack has been designed to accompany the book, ‘Feelings!’ by
Libby Walden and Richard Jones. It is designed to support both
the understanding and use of the words and language in the book
and is suitable for children both with and without speech, lan-
guage and communication difficulties. Both parents and school
staff can use this pack.
The activities are arranged in levels according to Marion Blank’s
model of language development (Blanks, Rose & Berlin, 1972) with
level 1 being the easiest and level 4 being the hardest. For chil-
dren with speech, language and communication difficulties work at
the level at which the child can achieve success, occasionally chal-
lenging them with a harder level activity with full support. The
child’s speech and language therapist should be able to tell you
which Blanks level the child is currently developing at. For chil-
dren without speech, language or communication difficulties, all
activities are suitable for Key Stage 1 children.
The visual resources at the end of this pack are designed to be cut
out and laminated so that they can be re-used.
For children with speech, language and communication difficulties,
repetition is key to successful word and language learning. Repeat
the story and activities often.

The symbol resources in this pack are from Widgit Symbols ©


Widgit Software 2002 - 2021. This pack may be copied for use
with students but may not be shared for any other purpose.
2. Blank’s level 1 Activity Ideas
• Matching - Look at the ‘who?’ and ‘what?’ pictures in the
book. Place some of the vocabulary pictures in front of the
child and encourage them to find the vocabulary picture to
match the picture in the book. You can make this a bit harder
by closing the book so that they have to remember what they
have just seen or heard about.
• Matching - lotto games. Copy the ‘who?’, ‘what doing?’ and
‘what?’ vocabulary words so that there are 2 sets. Keep one
set whole as the ‘board’ and one set cut up individually. Shuf-
fle the cards and place them in a pile face down. Take turns
to pick a picture. Whoever fills their lotto board first is the
winner.
• Naming - Look at the ‘who?’ and ‘what?’ pictures from the
book or the vocabulary pictures. Ask the child to label/name
them e.g. ‘What’s this?’. Find some toys to represent the
things in the book e.g. toy people, toy boat etc. Ask the child
to find things you say e.g. ‘find the ‘tree’’ or ‘find the dog’.
• Naming actions - Look at the ‘what doing?’ pictures from the
book or the vocabulary pictures. Ask the child to label/name
the action e.g. ‘what’s he doing?’
• Naming - dice game. Place 6 ‘who?’, ‘what doing?’ or ‘what?’
pictures in front of the child in the dice game template. Take
turns to roll the dice, label the picture and turn the card over.
Whoever turns all of their cards over first is the winner.
• Naming - pairs or snap. Copy the ‘who?’, ‘what doing?’ and/or
‘what?’ pictures. Play pairs or snap with the 2 sets of pictures,
naming the cards as they are turned over.
3. Blank’s level 2 Activity Ideas
• Describe a scene - Use the colourful semantics sentence tem-
plates and vocabulary pictures as shown to support the child
to describe a scene from the book.
• Answering questions - After reading a page from the book,
ask ‘who?’, ‘what happened?’, ‘what?’ and ‘where?’ questions
and encourage the child to answer, using the question
prompts and vocabulary pictures to support them if required.
To make this harder, close the book after you have read the
page so that the child has to remember the information.
• Finish my sentence - After reading a page from the book, start
at sentence off for the child and encourage them to finish it,
using the vocabulary pictures to support them if necessary.
• Identifying and describing characteristics - Place the ‘what
like?’ (adjective) pictures in front of the child. Ask them to find
the people/things in the book that match a given adjective.
Try to find other things in the home/classroom/school that are
that adjective. Find sets of toys e.g. boats that have different
sizes. Ask the child to find one you say e.g. ‘find a boat that’s
big!’
• Word association - ‘Draw a line’ game. Use the ‘Draw a line’
game resource and encourage the child to draw a line be-
tween the word association and the item.
• Identifying differences - use the emotions pictures provided to
talk about what is different about each pair of pictures.
• Categorisation - Use the category templates provided to sort
some of the vocabulary pictures into different categories
(make sure the relevant vocabulary pictures are placed so that
the child can see/access them).
4. Blank’s level 3 Activity Ideas

• Sequencing - Use the pictures from the book, cut them out
and laminate them. Place them (muddled up) in front of the
child and encourage the child to sequence them correctly.
• Story retell - Use the ‘first/next/then/last’ prompts to encour-
age the child to retell the story.
• Prediction in sequence - Ask what the child thinks the little
boy might do next or how he might feel next.
• Identifying by exclusion - Place pairs of vocabulary pictures in
front of the child. Ask them to find the one that is ‘not……’
e.g. ‘find the one that is not a boat’, ‘find the one that is not
noisy’ etc.
• Identifying similarities - Use the ‘similarities’ and ’differences’
emotions pictures provided. Ask and talk about why they are
similar.
• Identifying synonyms and antonyms - from the vocabulary
pictures in the resources, find pairs of words that mean the
same or similar and encourage the child to sort them out. Al-
ternatively, find pairs of words that are opposites, and encour-
age the child to find the pairs.
• Defining a word - Use the word definition template in the re-
sources to encourage the child to define a given word from
the book.
• What did they say/think/feel? - Use the speech and/or
thought bubble templates and support the child to write/draw
in the template what the characters in the book said/thought/
felt.
5. Blank’s level 4 Activity Ideas

• Prediction - After reading the book, ask the child, ‘if’, ques-
tions e.g. ‘if the little boy couldn’t find his mum, how would he
feel?’
• Providing solution to a problem - After reading the book, ask
the child, ‘what could they do?’ questions e.g. ‘What could the
boy do if he got lost?’
• Explaining obstacles to a solution - After reading the book, ask
the child, ‘why can’t we/they?’ questions e.g. ‘why shouldn’t
the boy throw something if he is angry?’
• Identifying the cause - After reading the book ask ‘why did
that happen?’ questions e.g. ‘Why did the boy feel angry?’
• Explaining what we see - After reading the book ask, ‘How do
we know?’ or ‘How can you tell?’ questions e.g. ‘How do you
know the boy was happy?’
• Explaining what could be used to help to achieve a goal and
why - After reading the book ask, ‘What could the boy do to
calm down when he is angry…..’ and ‘why?’ questions e.g.
‘What could ?...why?’
• Look through the book and find idioms and metaphors. Draw
stick figure pictures of the literal and non-literal meaning of
the idioms with the child e.g.

Heart beats like a drum


Walk in someone’s shoes
6. Picture resources
Activity resources - dice game template
Activity resources - Colourful Semantics
sentence templates
Activity resources - Colourful Semantics
sentence templates
Activity resources - Colourful Semantics
sentence templates
Activity resources - Colourful Semantics
sentence templates
Activity Resources - Word Association
Activity resources - What’s similar and
what’s different?
Activity resources - category sorting
Activity resources - sequencing pictures
Activity resources - sequencing pictures
Activity resources - sequencing pictures
Activity resources - sequencing pictures
Activity resources - story retell
Activity resources - Definition template
Activity resources - What do they think?
Activity resources - What do they say?

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