DeCoding Jokes: Perception, Executive Function, Figurative Language
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Build your relationship through humor, laughter, and connection while engaging and motivate your students!
A large sized alphabet code is provided for close-point or far-point visual skill practice.
If you are working with two students or a small group, give one child the joke sheet and the second child the symbol sheet. The children with the joke sheet verbally describe the symbol, and the children with the alphabet code can tell them the letter.
Leveled
Level A: Many of the letter codes have a phonetic connection. A is an apple, B is a boy, C is a cat.
Level B: The letter codes are random. A is a pencil, B is a cat, C is an umbrella.
Therapeutic Objectives:
* Executive function and problem solving skills.
* Visual perceptual skills including visual discrimination, and visual memory.
* Gaze shift -needed for reading, copying from the board, and getting information from the environment.
* Attention and focus.
* Pragmatic language skills.
* Auditory skills of listening and memory.
* Handwriting skills.
* Group: cooperation, communication and visual perceptual skills.
IEP Goals / Objectives
Given therapeutic practice in areas of visual perception, gaze shift, and visual memory, Student will demonstrate accuracy and adequate speed in ability to copy information from classroom visuals such as white board or posters, in four out of five opportunities.
Given practice with decoding jokes, student will demonstrate auditory memory and pragmatic skills to effectively deliver a two line joke to a peer or an adult, in four out of five opportunities.
Given practice with decoding jokes, STUDENT will demonstrate auditory memory and pragmatic skills to effectively deliver a two line joke to a peer or an adult, in four out of five opportunities, by MONTH, YEAR.
Given therapeutic practice in areas of visual perception, gaze shift, and visual memory, STUDENT will demonstrate accuracy and adequate speed in ability to copy information from classroom visuals such as white board or posters, in four out of five opportunities, with 80% accuracy, by MONTH, YEAR.
This item is recommended for the following grade levels:
1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade