let's talk
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Here is a presentation on creating opportunities for children to express themselves.TRANSCRIPT
Let’s talk!
Creating opportunities for children to express themselves
Creating opportunities for expression
Talk about…
Oneself
Things around and experience in school
Pictures
Stories
Talk about oneself
Connect with the lives of children. Ask them about their :
• Thoughts/ideas• Needs, wishes, desires• Experiences• Emotions
Talk about objects and experiences in school
Children could accurately observe : trees houses
flowers bee-hives butterfliesshops
street taps drains
…and various other things around them and talk about it
Talk about pictures
Each group can be given a picture from :
• Newspapers • Magazines• Calendars• Stamps• Labels• Posters
Children can discuss the picture within the group and the spokesperson can describe it to the whole class. Pictures can be used for creative and analytical talk.
Talk about pictures
With the help of pictures we can direct the child to do thefollowing things:
Finding - Eg. Who is sitting on the chair?
Reasoning – Eg. Why is the girl crying?
Projecting – Eg. What will the little girl say to the lady selling the vegetables? (projecting into an imaginary situation)
Predicting – Eg. What will the girl do when she reaches home?
Relating - Eg. Did you ever sit on a bicycle? What does it feel like?
Listening to stories and talking about them
Give the children a chance to :
- Listen to the story
- Relate to the story
- Imagine characters and events
- Complete the story
- Recreate the story and its characters in a meaningful way
Role play
Playing the roles of characters in a story develops:
- communication skills
- insight and imagination
- group decision making
- conflict resolution
Tips for teachers
• Allow the child to say the whole thing
• Be interested in what he is trying to say
• Control your desire to contradict
• Respond by saying elaborately what the child has said, bringing in new vocabulary and a richer sentence structure
• Ask for more information
• Direct the child to a new aspect of the topic
• Adapted from the handbook, “The child’s Language And The Teacher” by Krishna Kumar