Strategies Language. (24 pages)

Miscellaneous stuff. Right/left brain dominance & verbcentred meaning/ Verb-centred meaning: thematic roles. Aspects of Language: morphology, syntax, semantics. (More detail in Language document). Development of language and thinking: Directed Reading-Thinking Activities (DRTA), Reading-Thinking Content instruction, ReQuest, Cloze, Imaging, Semantic Webbing, Guided Reading Procedure, Read, Encode, Annotate & Ponder (REAP). Language games for the classroom: indicators & strategies of poor receptive & expressive language and inappropriate use of language. Specific strategies: finish the picture, cartoons, family feud, “no peeking!”, ball race, action codes, “where are my glasses?”, barrier games, sentence skittles, first and last, past, present, future, create a story, word hunt, memory add-ons, lost umbrellas, block towers. References. Commercially available board games.