Primary Sampler Module Teacher's Notes ISL - Flipbook - Page 19
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A Typical Day in School
Questions continued…
Deaf education and Deaf schools:
Special Schools, Mainstream schools, Deaf Units, Residential School
Do you think all Deaf people wear hearing aids or Cochlear implants?
Do you know anyone who has a Cochlear Implant?
Do you think if Deaf people have Cochlear Implants, then they can hear like you?
What is the diference between your school and Deaf schools?
What may be challenging for a Deaf pupil in a mainstream classroom?
Suggested activities:
• Call the roll, repeat the replies with the pupils and exchange sign greetings
Before we start:
• Introduce vocabulary activities associated with routine actions in the
What are the things
classroom (these can include roll call interaction, saying the day of the week
that you do or say almost
open your copy, raise your hand, stand up, sit down and other instructions)
every day in school?
• Encourage pupils to draw the signs they learn.
Images of diferent calendars, school journals and other items can be used to
introduce the days of the week. Practice how to sign the days of the week,
today, tomorrow, yesterday, etc.
• Review numbers 1 to 12 and months of the year
•
Ask pupils to try to memorise the days of the week using any strategy they prefer, before you play a game to see
how many they remember. Give them time, then check
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Ask them to note their preferred strategies on page 9 of the Language Passport
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Tutor introduces basic classroom routine expressions. Pupils can be given or make cards with expressions such as
open your copy, raise your hand, or stand up
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