- Hide the cards around and have students match and sort the non-identical cards.
- Have students draw a random card and describe the features or function of the item to see if the rest of the students can guess what the picture is.
- Have a student state the class or function of the picture and the rest of the students have to ask yes/no questions about it.
- Students have to find a picture when given a descriptive clue. For example during the school unit I might say, “Can you find something that I can store my book in and has 4 legs?” The student would then find the picture of the desk.
- Play memory with the cards.
There are TONS of ways to use the picture cards and word wall cards to build language. These cards are included in all of our theme units and our life skills units.
- Helping students improve at generating sentences. The student has to recall what we have learned about the vocabulary word and use that knowledge to come up with a sentence.
- Improving attention to peers to know what sentence the group will be writing.
- Work as a team to recall and write the sentence. This includes spelling and generalizing sentence & writing concepts.
It isn’t necessary for students to all be at the same level for this activity. Check out the blog post link below for running a mixed level grouping: