Description
This resource is aimed at junior/middle pupils or SEN pupils. It is an activity to give pupils practice in visual discrimination and observation. There are twenty two cards in this pack, four per A4 page. Each of the cards show an image – the pupil has to decide if the image makes sense, if it is right or wrong.
Half of the images are right and the other half are wrong. The “tick” and “x” is on the right or the left on alternate cards.
Cut up the sheets into twenty two separate cards, laminate each of the cards individually and mix them up.
Pupils should look at the image on each card and indicate whether they think it is right or wrong by placing a clothes peg on either the “tick” or the “x”.
This type of language game may be a challenge for pupils with language impairments and yet they present the pupil with great learning opportunities. When the pupil makes their decision, it gives an opportunity for a conversation to open up between the child and the teacher/SNA/supporting adult based on the answer. So the adult can follow up on the pupil’s decision by engaging in a conversation as to why they thing the image is right or wrong.
This activity is especially suitable for pupils who may not be able to write answers but can give a response using clothes pegs. It is also good for fine motor skills in the manipulation of the pegs onto the cards.
This resource could be used with individual pupils in a special class setting, with pupils working with LS/Resource teacher or during a language station in Literacy Station Teaching where each pupil in the group is provided with a set of these cards.
We frequently gave activities such as this for homework to our SEN pupils. It gave them the sense that they had homework like everyone else and it also allowed the parents to see what language topic we were working on.
Activities such as these were also used as Independent work completed by SEN pupils in their work station.
