Up and Away - National Council for Curriculum and Assessment

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ELP page 18 The local and
wider community
This theme may also include ‘People who help us’
(page 14) and ‘Caring for my locality’ (page 22).
Resources
Map of the locality containing numbers which
indicate particular buildings and places.
Photographs of buildings and places in the area
(shops, doctor’s clinic, library, gym, park,
playground, etc.).
Flash cards containing key words.
Method
1. Introduce the photos one at a time, working
on the key vocabulary.
2. Mix up the photos with the flash cards and put
them face up on the table. Pupils match each
photo with the key word(s).
3. Pupils talk about who uses the different places
and what happens there.
4. Take the pupils on a short walking tour to see
the places nearest the school.
5. Stop and let children look at the photographs
as they look at each place.
6. Back in the classroom, pupils look at the map
and decide which building or place relates to
each number.
Note! Flash cards can be made into sets of
‘Snap’ cards. Snap is an excellent game
for consolidating word recognition.