Oral Language Teaching Resource: I Spy Activity and Lesson Plan

This assignment presents an 'I Spy' oral language teaching resource designed for K12 education, specifically targeting early childhood development. The activity involves an enlarged 'I Spy' object jar, where students describe objects using descriptive sentences, enhancing their vocabulary and phonetic skills. The resource aligns with EYLF principles, emphasizing partnership and children's active involvement in learning. Developmental learning outcomes focus on pronunciation and phonetic skills, linked to EYLF outcomes 4.0 and 5.0, promoting confident communication and exploration. Teaching strategies include rhyming and singing activities. The evaluation assesses vocabulary development and pronunciation. The follow-up activity involves object descriptions and keyword usage, reinforcing literary skills and collaboration. This resource aims to create successful communicators and readers, stimulating language through complex questioning and the use of adjectives, verbs, and pronouns.

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.

This activity is in compliance with the Blanks’ level of language development, where the
complex questions and pronunciation helps to stimulate the language of a child. This activity
would stimulate longer answers and the use of adjectives, verbs and pronouns.
A list of the teaching strategies identifying how you will help the child meet each of the learning
outcomes you have planned
All the children will be made to rhyme and sing “animal songs “. Singing and reading aloud
are helpful for children to learn language, along with listening and the concentration skills
necessary for the development of the memory.
A link to an EYLF outcome educator learning promotion example
Learning outcome 3
A link to which EYLF practice your plan most relates to your teaching approach :
Children are connected with and contribute to their world
An evaluation that clearly describes the child’s progression towards achieving each of the learning
outcomes with examples of the child’s interaction with the environment, materials and others:
Each children will demonstrate rich vocabulary skills and will be able to learn and pronounce new words.

An evaluation of any other aspects of the planning that impacted on the success of the child’s
achievement
All the children will be able to select and pronounce objects from the spy jar and will be able to
right down the related words.
A follow up of each experience that includes a brief description of the experience and the learning
outcome(s) to be achieved that reflects the child’s demonstrated skills, interests and cultural context:
Each of the students will be asked to select an object from the Spy object jar and the other students would
use the description for the selected objects. Students will use three key words to guess the selected objects.
Each children will be able to demonstrate good literary skills, will be able to pronounce new word and
collaborate effectively with children.