Hi. im going to be teaching some mainstream school children makaton??

Question

do you have any suggestions how i can make this fun and interesting????

thought about having a plate of raisens and getting them to sign please and thankyou???

thankyou

Answer 1

You can make it as interesting as you want.

If the children don't have any special needs they will probably be able to learn more signs in one go.

I'd say that the raisins are a good start, but if you want to make it more fun you could have something more fun for them to ask for.

You can also do a question like do you want ....? and they sign yes or no. This would be a better set of first signs as yes and no are used for communication whereas please and thank you are used more out of politeness.

I'd teach it in the levels as they reflect the aquisition of language. Use different activities for different signs.