Chapter 27

1. Chapter 27 Striking with Rackets and Paddles

2. Chapter 27 Key Points Striking with Rackets and Paddles • Requires the coordination of: • Accurate tossing and dropping the object to be contacted • Visually tracking the object while traveling to an appropriate location • Contacting object while adjusting to weight and length of implement • Are complex skills and should be introduced to children after they have experience striking with body parts, specifically the hand

3. Chapter 27 Key Points Teaching Striking with Rackets and Paddles Precontrol Level Tasks • Since difficulty of striking with an implement increases with the length of the implement, provide children with: • Short-handed, light-weighted implements • Light-weight and slow traveling object such as balloons • Exploration experiences should include: • Striking various objects, including balls suspended from ropes at various heights

4. Chapter 27 Key Points Teaching Striking with Rackets and Paddles (cont) Control Level Tasks • Children can consistently strike a ball and ready for for tasks that involve: • Control of direction and force • Control of aerial pathway of object • Set up tasks that teach children to focus on the ball • Introduce children to different types of striking implements and objects to contact • Introduce children to sidearm pattern of striking

5. Chapter 27 Key Points Teaching Striking with Rackets and Paddles (cont) Utilization Level Tasks • Enable children to • Contact object repeatedly without missing • Send object various distances and in different directions • Children can apply striking skills in dynamic situations using different positions to strike, alone and with a partner

6. Chapter 27 Key Points Teaching Striking with Rackets and Paddles (cont) Proficiency Level Tasks • Help children • Demonstrate quick moving and reacting patterns of striking in game-like situations • Control both body and implement while traveling • Select appropriate type of striking when responding to an opponent

7. Chapter 27 Key Points Teaching Striking with Rackets and Paddles (cont) • Progression spiral suggests progression of tasks • Box 27-2 indicate key developmental characteristics • Activities found in text • Identifies Tasks Identifies Challenges • Assessment ideas found throughout chapter

8. Progression Spiral for Developing the Skill Theme of Striking with Rackets and Paddles • PROFICIENCY LEVEL Self‑designed racket games Badminton Volleyball Minitennis doubles Aerial net games Minitennis Racket Four Square Racket Corner Ball Wall Ball • UTILIZATION LEVEL Racket Call Ball Striking in various aerial pathways in gamelike situations Striking continuously upward with a group Striking overhead over a net Striking overhead Striking to different places around a partner Hitting cooperatively and continuously with a partner From Both Sides Now • CONTROL LEVEL Striking continuously over and through a target Striking a ball rebounding from a wall Striking an object and sending it over a net Striking through a target Hitting to different places Striking at high and low targets To the wall again—Sideways (sidearm backhand pattern) To the wall—Sideways (sidearm forehand pattern) Striking for hoops (varying the distance) Striking for distance (varying the force) Striking to wall targets Both Sides (of the paddle) Now Ups, Downs, and Forwards Up Against the Wall (striking forward) Ups and Downs Ups Downs • PRECONTROL LEVEL Upward Bound Hit the wall Striking a suspended ball Balloon strike (lightweight paddle) Paddle balance