Name of teaching material
Alphabet BINGO self-made product
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| Target |
Lower Secondary Department (12 year olds) Students who have free use of their upper body, or have limited upper-body mobility due to paralysis (Upper grades of the Elementary Department, Lower Secondary Department: 9 to 14 year olds) |
|---|---|
| Disability category | physically challenged |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | foreign languages |
| Specific purposes | Introduce Roman alphabet letters and sounds, and expose students to English words |
| Considerations for disability characteristics |
Teach letter-sound correspondence visually to children who predominantly use hearing for understanding. To help imagine the sounds of letters, present the letters along with sample English words that begin with them. |
| Expected effects and results |
Students can read randomly presented alphabet letters. This may lead to the introduction of the Roman alphabet. This may, in turn, lead to students’ spontaneously pronouncing English words. |
| How to use |
(1) Students begin by arranging alphabet cards (consisting of a first-letter and sample English word on the front, and a kana word on the back) in alphabetical order. (See an alphabet chart/book → see part of it → arrange the cards without seeing it → measure the time taken to arrange the cards) (2) After self- and teacher-review of his/her card arrangement, each student selects eight cards and places them on the BINGO sheet. Note: A student who cannot hold the cards in place should ask another student to fix them in place with masking tape. (The masking tape, which has alphabet letters on it, may itself be of interest to students.) (3) A student randomly draws a card out of an opaque bag, and shows it to his/her classmates while reading out the alphabet letter on it. As students familiarize themselves with the cards, the English words on the cards can be read aloud, instead of the alphabet letters. (Cards with kana words on the back → cards without them) (4) When a student wins a BINGO game, he/she receives a prepared alphabet sticker (or something similar with a sticky back) and is told to compose a word using the Roman alphabet. (5) Students then practice writing the alphabet letters of eight cards of their choice, using the form attached to the BINGO sheet. (If a student has difficulty using the form because the lines are too small to see, he/she practices writing with an enlarged version.) Karuta (the reader reads the alphabet letter on a card → reads the sample English word), alphabet matching game (as in ‘Old Maid’, the player asks, “Do you have the letter “A”?”, etc.) |
| Related teaching materials and information | |
| Useful for other students |
- Informant Special Needs Education School for the Physically Challenged, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords English, Roman alphabet, cerebral palsy, spastic, athetosis, in accordance with, lower grades
- Created 2017-11-09 17:48:59
- Updated 2023-12-08 11:33:50