Oral Language Teaching Resource: I Spy

Experience plan
Date of implementation:
1. Title of experience – Oral language teaching resource “I Spy”.
An interesting oral language activity is “I Spy”. It is an innovative approach where students are
provided with an enlarged copy the of the I Spy object jar in a page containing a large number of
objects in the jar. Initially the jar is laminated and is displayed in front of the whole class or the
class is segregated in to groups. Students take turns for selecting an object from the jar in front of
the class. The students will describe using the sentences: “I spy a/an _________with
__________.” For example: I spy a red dress with a golden broach. Other students would use the
description for guessing the selected objects. The activity is repeated again until all the students
have described at least one object. In order to challenge the students, a Spy worksheet has to be
given to draw three objects from the jar and describe each of them by using at least three key
words
Materials required and a diagram or photo of set up:
1 enlarged copy of the Spy object jar.
1 activity worksheet.
Figure: copy of the spy object jar

A rationale linking the justification of the learning experience to the skills identified in the observation
and ensuring the plan meets both the capabilities, interests and cultural contexts of the child
: This activity will promote oral skill to the children and will help his to become successful
communicators and successful readers. The activity will allow the children to pronounce a wide
variety of object and the filling of the worksheet with a variety of word related to the subject will
also increase the vocabulary of the children. It should be mentioned that oral language lays the
foundation for the reading and the writing skills as children would enter and progress through the
school.
A link to an EYLF principle which relates to the underpinning philosophy of the experience plan :
Partnership- The educators work in partnership with the children
The educators collaborate with the children to set up the activity.
A list of developmental learning outcomes that are specific and can be evaluated and demonstrate
developmental progression from the skills identified in the original documentation:
 Children will be able to pronounce English words properly
 Improve the phonetic skills of the student
A link to an EYLF outcome listing the specific aspect of child evidence example:
This activity can be linked with the ELYF learning outcomes –
4.0- Children becomes confident and involved learners.
4.1: children develop dispositions for learning like cooperation, curiosity, creativity and
confidence, commitment, persistence, reflexivity and imagination. The activities has to be
designed in such a way such that the children express interest, imagine or follow their own ideas.
This can also be linked to 5.0, which states that children are efficient communicators.
The activity can be linked to this outcome due to the fact that children uses exploration,
collaboration and problem solving across different aspects of the curriculum.