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Aim To develop literacy skills. Objectives Link experience to adjective Identify the appropriate adjective from a given list. Adjectives/ Ansoddair. Hard - Caled Rough - Warm - Cynnes Fluffy - ?? Mushy - ?? Cuddly - M eddal Woolly - Gwlanog Coarse - Bras Mouldable - Fowldio
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AimTo develop literacy skills Objectives Link experience to adjective Identify the appropriate adjective from a given list
Adjectives/Ansoddair • Hard - Caled • Rough - • Warm - Cynnes • Fluffy - ?? • Mushy - ?? • Cuddly - Meddal • Woolly - Gwlanog • Coarse - Bras • Mouldable - Fowldio • Delicate - Bregus • Squishy - ?? • Moist - Llaith • Firm - Cadarn • Stiff - ?? Soft - Meddal Smooth - Llyfn Cold - Oer Wet - Gwlyb Grainy - Granular - Gronynnog Dusty - Llychlyd Crumbly - Friwsionllyd Sticky - Gludiog Gooey – Stomplyd Gloop - ?? Tacky - ?? Gummy - ??
Why? • Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) league table. • Estyn Framework • Education Minister Leighton Andrews four year plan
David Kolb on experiential learning • Concrete Experience - (CE) • Reflective Observation - (RO) • Abstract Conceptualization - (AC) • Active Experimentation - (AE)
Fleming’s VARK model • Kinesthetic learning style – natural discovery learners. • The feel of the objects will aid the students understanding of adjectives. • Good for students who struggle to learn via reading and listening. • Activity also leans towards visual learning. • Visual learners have a preference for seeing. • Seeing the object, and making the connection between the object and it’s description will consolidate learning
Experiential Learning • Tell me, and I will forget; show me, and I may remember; involve me, and I will understand - Confucius • The things we have to learn before we do them, we learn by doing them.- Aristotle
Gestalt • The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In viewing the “whole,” a cognitive process takes place –the mind makes a leap from comprehending the parts to realizing the whole. • To generate productive thinking, students should arrange and rearrange the problem in many ways until the solution emerges based on understanding. • Eureka moment!