Watch’n’Learn · Manual
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Contents — Level 1 — matching and observing
  1. 1.Watch 'n Learn
  2. 2.Level 1 — matching and observing
  3. 3.Level 2 — words in a sentence
  4. 4.Level 3 — answering questions
  5. 5.Level 4 — characteristics and prepositions
  6. 6.Level 5 — definitions & theory of mind
  7. 7.Procedure — how to proceed?
  8. 8.How often should you practise?
  9. 9.How an exercise is built
  10. 10.The pathway — series by level

Level 1 — learning to match and observe

In this level the child learns to match:

  • objects
  • people
  • actions
  • sounds
  • words

Matching objects and people

To teach object matching we developed two series: Enseignement Appariement Objet and Appariement Objet Spécial.

Other series for learning object matching are Appariement Objet Couleur and Appariement d'objet de différentes perspectives.

Matching people is taught in the series Appariement de personnes. In this series the child first learns identical matching of people, then non-identical matching of 4 people. This is very difficult for many children, and it is very important for them to learn to tell different people apart in pictures. See also Appariement de personnes de différentes perspectives.

To learn to follow and match objects that are passed from one person to another, we developed the series Appariement d'objet demandé. In this series the child cannot choose the correct answer without having followed and remembered the object that was handed to the person on the other side. This series is very important because the child learns to look at and point to the object that is being talked about and passed along, rather than the objects lying on the table (stationary objects) that are not being talked about.

Other series that work on object matching:

To learn new words using the skill of matching objects, we developed a list of about 220 words a child should know, which we call the first words (the "Enseignement mots" series T0/T5/T10). There are several categories, and before learning the words, children must be able to match the identical and non-identical objects for those words.

Once the child can do that, they can learn to identify the objects when only their name is given, with the LR- exercises, and/or they can learn to name the objects with the W- exercises: they see the object and hear its name in the first part, then they have to choose that object in the second part, and then they have to name the object in the third part.

Matching actions

Once the child has mastered (part of) the following series:

you can start action matching with the series Enseignement Appariement Action Simple. In this series the child learns to match people's actions. This is very difficult for most children, which is why we start with very simple actions or gestures shown in photos. The person does not move, but the person's arms are positioned differently. Step by step, the child learns to watch the video for longer and longer, and arm movement is added. In one of the last steps, the child has to match a video of the gesture with a video of the same gesture performed by another person: this is in fact non-identical action matching. This way, the child has to look at the action to find the same one (and not match the person).

In the series Enseignement Appariement Action Objet, the child also learns to match people's actions, but the prompt given is different: objects are used to perform the actions, and then the objects are removed (so that the child really matches the action and not the object).

In Observation 1, the child learns to observe actions in everyday life or in play situations with other children and other people. The games used include: play dough, playing with cars, drawing, cake, magnets and Playmobil, playground, stable, car. The actions the people perform are: cutting/wiping an apple, blowing one's nose, taking off a shoe/sock, drawing, crawling, running, jumping, walking, lying down, sitting down.

Matching sounds

Now that the child can match objects and actions, we add auditory matching. We start teaching auditory matching with videos featuring sounds the child knows, such as kitchen sounds. At first the child sees what is making the sound (the visual of the object) and hears it (auditory). Then, step by step, the video is removed and the child ends up matching only the sounds. For this we created the series Appariement de sons cuisine. Another series for learning to match sounds is Appariement de sons d'animaux.

Once the child can match sounds, we use this skill to teach them to match words and, later on, sentences, with the series:

Finally, the series Puzzle teaches the child to look carefully at puzzle pieces and to know where to place them.

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