Teaching Language

[MUSIC PLAYING] Michelle teaches the language for a small group activity, through the use of a peer model, teacher modeling, and visual supports. Look! Today, we need a paintbrush. We need paintbrushes for our activity. We need paint… Who likes to paint? You like to paint, Cole? Vaibhav, look! We need paint. Here’s my paint. And what color is my paint? Yellow paint. What color, Jack? Yellow paint. Vaibhav. Look at my paint. What color? Yellow paint. And everyone is going to pick a… What shape is that? Circle! A circle. Everyone is going to get a circle… …and we’re going to paint it yellow. Student: A circle. A circle! That’s right. What do you need, Jack? Student 2: Is it okay if I paint it like this? You’re going to paint your circle in there? That will be just fine. Now what do we need? Student 2: Toothbrush. Teacher: Paintbrush! You’re using your words. What do you need, Jack? Paintbrush. What do you need, Cole? Paintbrush. Alright, Vaibhav! We need a paintbrush. Okay… Now we need—what? What do we need now? Yellow…paint. Yellow paint. What I was doing with our other group was I put the paint on your paper. And you spread… you spread your paint around. Do you want yours on your paper or somewhere else? Student: On my paper. Teacher: Okay. Yellow paint. Time to paint!