Pro-ed Differential Processing Training Program: Linguistic Tasks by Kerry Winget - 31053

Pro-ed Differential Processing Training Program: Linguistic Tasks

Ages: 6-12
Grades: 1-7

Target the processing skills that underpin steady, consistent language development. This systematic progression of tasks focuses on word relationships, prosody, and language organization.

These lessons individually and as a group, teach children to manipulate increasingly complex units of language. Each one-page activity has a clear, measurable goal and a performance grid for easy measurement, identification of error patterns, and quick documentation of progress.

The lessons are grouped into three skill areas:

Word Relationships

Associations–recognize and explain associations; generate associated words
Comparisons–identify and explain similarities and differences
Synonyms–identify, generate, and compare synonyms
Antonyms–recognize and generate antonyms
Multiple-Meaning Words–identify, explain, and define multiple-meaning words
Similes–identify similar characteristics, identify items by characteristics, complete and generate similes

Prosodic Interpretation

Emotions–recognize and infer emotions and identify emotional intonation
Sentence Intonation–recognize intonation, infer sentence meaning from intonation, use intonation appropriately
Stress and Rhythm–discriminate syllable and word stress and rhythm, interpret changes in stress and rhythm

Language Organization

Convergent Naming–identify objects from clues, discriminate and identify categories, identify commonalities among objects
Divergent Naming–name category members by function, parts, and attributes; complete analogies
Feature Description–describe objects by attributes, parts, and function; generate effective clues about object

155 pages • 8.5 x 11 • softcover • ©2007