The Terrible PLOP
The oracy book pack for The terrible plop contains a lesson plan and all supporting resource materials for each activity.
Lesson plan includes:
- general preparatory discussion notes: 'scary things'
- puppet / language activity
- language game: question jigsaw
- barrier game: basic concepts
- memory activity (auditory/verbal based) - I went on a picnic ....
- 2 sound level activities: rhythm (auditory perception) & rhyme
- 2 word level activities: character webs - adjectives & antonyms/synonyms
- 3 sentence level activities: relative clauses ; comprehension (true / false / I don't know) & sentence expansion
- 3 text level activities: life cycle sequence ; personal recount & text innovation
The terrible PLOP was the winner of the Book of the Year Award, from Speech Pathology Australia in 2009.