Odd-one-out/Pairs
Materials needed:
- A selection of picture cards or objects from various categories. Think
about including fruit (apple, banana, mango,
orange,
pineapple), clothing (socks, t-shirt, trousers, hat, dress), toys (teddy bear,
dolly, toy car, pencils), animals (dog, cat, rat, lizard), household items
(spoon, plate, pot, cup), and/or furniture (chair, table, bed, book case) etc.
- Put 3
pictures in front of the child, 2 from the same category and 1 from a
different category. Ask the child to tell you which one does not belong
and why. Start with an easy task e.g. with a picture of a banana, a mango
and a hippopotamus. After some practice you can make the task more
difficult by adding cards, or including more similar items (e.g. by having
pictures of a chair, a table, a bed and a cup).
Make sure that you
mix up the order of the pictures so that the odd one out is not always in the
same place on the table (which would make it too easy for the child- they are
smart at picking up these kinds of patterns in teacher behaviour!!).
- Lay
out 4 pictures – 2 from one category and 2 from another and ask the child
which ones go together and why. As the child’s skills improve, increase
the number of pictures to 4 pairs and so on. You can make this into a
memory game. Turn all the cards over, face down and take it in turns to
turn over just 2 pictures. When you get 2 from the same category you get
to keep the pictures and have another go. If the 2 pictures are not from
the same category, you turn the cards face-down again and it is the next
person’s turn. Continue until all the cards have been won. The winner is
the person at the end with the most pairs.
What it teaches?
Categories
(depending on the pictures used), similarities and differences, vocabulary,
inclusion and exclusion of category members
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