Teaching & Talking Tips Download for - Magnetic Construction Kit
Use the Teaching & Talking Tips while building with the Magnetic Contruction Kit
The download helps boost speech, language and literacy skills while playing
Teaching & Talking Tips are built around our FOCUS technique.
F – OCUS *main goal of the toy *vocabulary associated with toy and it’s use. *key teaching Features (e.g. science/social concept, letter/ sound, imagination)
F- O- CUS Observe what they already know and are saying/communicating.
Fo- C – us Communication: how the themes/ ideas of the toy encourages or give opportunities to practice social interactions.
Foc- U- s Understanding skills – words, sentences, ideas/themes/concepts, reading/literacy skills. Understanding and explaining vocabulary has been linked with I.Q. and early reading success. Being able to give “definitions” in their own words demonstrates a “true” understanding of vocabulary.
Focu- S Speech: saying sounds, exclamations, words, sentences, stories. Making gestures & facial expressions.