3 KEY WORD LEVEL

 

To carry out simple instructions containing three key words.

When carrying out the activity, a choice of objects/people/places should be available for the underlined words.

 

• Have a toys picnic. Set out a plate and bowl in front of a teddy and the same in front of a dolly. Lay out a choice of toy food and ask the child to give one item to teddy or dolly e.g. ‘Put the banana on dolly’s plate’, ‘put the apple in teddy’s bowl.’
• Play an action game involving a choice of toys e.g. teddy, duck and frog and a hoop and a small mat. Place the hoop and mat in front of the child. Show how the toys can jump, sit, dance, run, sleep etc. Put the toys on a table and ask the child to make a toy perform an action in a certain place e.g. ‘Make the frog dance in the hoop’, ‘Make the teddy jump on the mat.’
• Play a game of giving presents to large or small toys. Have a large and small teddy and a large and small dolly. Lay out three small objects (or pictures) and ask the child to give them to the toys e.g. ‘Give the ball to the big teddy’, ‘give the cup to the small dolly.’
• Have a selection of plastic animals and small furniture. Demonstrate how the silly animals have come into the house and are playing on the furniture. Show how they climb on and under furniture. Put the animals in front of the child and ask the child to hide them e.g. ‘Put the cow under the table’, ‘put the pig on the chair’.
• With a small group of children, demonstrate all the different things toy animals can do e.g. run, dance, jump and walk. Ask the children to make the animals move to another named child e.g. ‘Make the cat jump to Sally’, ‘Make the pig run to Zak.’