ACTIVITY that promote SLA

Concept Sort

Materials:

- Make picture cards!

-- You can do this by cutting pictures out of the newspaper and gluing them onto index cards.

            -- Alternatively you can make them using drawings/marker pens

Think about creating sets by category. For example make a set of colour cards, a set of ‘things we wear’ a set of ‘things we eat’ or a set of vehicle cards.  Try and accompany the picture/object with a written word wherever possible.

            For example:

            Your shape cards might look like this:

SQUARE

CIRCLE

Your colour cards might look like this:

Black

Blue

1. Give the children small sets of card to work with. Have them sort the cards into category piles 

In the beginning you may give students a set to work with containing only 2 categories. As they get better at sorting them, add more categories.

2. When the children have sorted their piles, have them explain to you WHY they made the choices they did. For example maybe given a pile of cards containing vehicles they will separate all those with wheels.. or they will separate animals with 2 legs from animals with 4 legs. If you ask the children about their choices you can get to know where there categorization skills lie. If children are having difficult sorting animals from vehicles, talk them though it.

What it teaches?

Concepts such as shapes and colours (depending on the cards created). Categories, similarities and differences, vocabulary