The document summarizes resources for answering wh- questions about a text, describing people and actions using pronouns, and providing drill therapy reinforcements. It discusses targets like comprehending paragraphs and texts, using subjective pronouns in a scene description, and allowing a client to "choose their own adventure" of therapy activities. Examples are given of wh- questions and a Harry Potter passage for comprehension practice.
The document summarizes resources for answering wh- questions about a text, describing people and actions using pronouns, and providing drill therapy reinforcements. It discusses targets like comprehending paragraphs and texts, using subjective pronouns in a scene description, and allowing a client to "choose their own adventure" of therapy activities. Examples are given of wh- questions and a Harry Potter passage for comprehension practice.
The document summarizes resources for answering wh- questions about a text, describing people and actions using pronouns, and providing drill therapy reinforcements. It discusses targets like comprehending paragraphs and texts, using subjective pronouns in a scene description, and allowing a client to "choose their own adventure" of therapy activities. Examples are given of wh- questions and a Harry Potter passage for comprehension practice.
The task and target text were chosen in response to the
English unit of study of the adolescent client Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone “Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Pivet Drive, were proud to say that they Chapter 1: The were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d Boy Who Lived expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense.’ • Used to ask about a person, people, or character of a story Who? Who? Where? • Used to ask about a place or position Where? Why? Used to ask about a reason Why? “Mr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large moustache. Mrs Dursley was thin and Chapter 1: The blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very Boy Who Lived useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbours. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere.” What? • Used to ask about information • Used to tell the steps of something or How? to describe something When? • Used to ask about time Chapter 8: The Potions Master ”There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide, sweeping ones; narrow, rickety ones; some that led some-where different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump. Then there were doors that wouldn’t open unless you asked politely, or tickled them in exactly the right place, and doors that weren’t really doors at all, but solid walls just pretending. It was also very hard to remember where anything was, because it all seemed to move around a lot. The people in the portraits kept going to visit each other and Harry was sure the coats of armour could walk.” Who? Where? How? Who? What? ? When? The following resource targets: Describing people and actions using subjective pronouns
The students provided a visual scene based on a
motivating stimuli (Fortnite). They used shading to draw the client’s attention to parts of the image. The following resource targets: “Choose your own adventure” session
For the same client who loves Fortnight. The students
used an “adventure map”. By choosing which destination to visit next, the client was able to choose which therapy activity they would complete next. The following resource targets: Drill therapy reinforcements
This activity used the stamp function in COVIU to
provide a reward for each instance of drill practice. The client gave themself a stamp for each production to colour the picture.
Social Space and Symbolic Power Author(s) : Pierre Bourdieu Source: Sociological Theory, Spring, 1989, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring, 1989), Pp. 14-25 Published By: American Sociological Association