This practical resource provides early years professionals and foundation teachers with games, activities and strategies to incorporate language into movement. The premise is that learning language concepts through movement will help all children, particularly especially those who might have language delays or coming from non-English-speaking backgrounds.
Section one provides whole class and individual movement activities to enable children to learn single-word concepts and simple phrases. Section two contains concept games and development motor movements activities and ideas that will help develop the physical process needed in learning language.
Educators, teachers and learning assistants can easily implement these ideas to their programs and be equipped with the knowledge and confidence to help children develop language through movement and active play.
Garry Powell was a teacher and administrator in both city and regional Australian government schools throughout his career. He spent much of his time as a classroom teacher, specialist physical education teacher and principal at inner city schools. He lectured in tertiary education for years, and has spoken on teacher education at conferences and workshops. Garry now spends his time writing teacher education resources and physical education content for children. He is the author of numerous books and resources.
Debra Armstrong taught in government primary and specialist schools for most of her career. She was a classroom teacher and an art andphysical education specialist teacher. She has won various awards, fellowships and lecturered at Monash University. Debra is an experiencedco-author who has written a number of teacher resources.