﻿Hello everybody, my name's Emma, and welcome to today's lesson. I'm looking forward to today's session and I hope you are too. I can't wait to get started. But before we do, just a quick reminder. We are here at Oak are here to support any approaches that you might already be using and any work you might have already been set. We know this lesson is going out to so many different children and families. So if you're not sure or have any questions, please do contact your child's school or usual speech and language therapy team. In today's session, we're moving on to think about beginning to sequence. We're going to create some activities that will help you to begin to sort things into sequences. And then we're going to share some ideas for more sequencing activities at home. So for today's session, all you'll need is your favourite book. If you can, a camera would be really helpful. And also a first and next board. There's a copy of this included in the downloadable resource with this lesson. So before we begin, find a quiet place where you won't be disturbed for the lesson, turn off any distractions or notifications that you might have running on your device, and make sure that you and your adult are seated comfortably. When you're both ready, let's begin. Okay, let's start by doing some talking and thinking about beginning to sequence. Thinking skills involves being able to process information that's going on around us. We know that early information processing begins with being able to find and collect relevant information and then use it to help us sort. We also work on being able to classify and categorise as well as being able to sequence events. To be able to sequence information is to be able to recognise and understand that certain things happen in a certain order. Early development of this skill begins with being able to place two or three pictures of a highly familiar everyday task into the correct order. This can be done by taking pictures of the child completing familiar tasks or favourite activities. So pause the video here to think of some of the child's everyday activities and some of their favourite things to do. We're going to use these to begin to create our own sequencing resources at home. Now that you've got your list, it's time to think about gathering some pictures of the child completing these activities. Start with maybe two or three pictures of each step of that activity. If you can, print these, place them in a container on the left, and then sort them into a sequence on the right hand side using a horizontal line. Here's an example. In the box on the left hand side, I would have my three pictures of me completing a task. And then I would place them on the right hand side into the order first, next, and last. Pause the video to take some pictures of the child completing their favourite activities. When you've got these resources ready, come back to the video and press play to continue. It's important that we're very conscious of the language that we're using when we're supporting our children to develop their sequencing skills. By using language first, next, then, and last, we're reinforcing these concepts. Model this language and describe what the child is doing through play and their everyday activities. Some more activities that you could work on sequencing with are getting dressed, washing hands, cleaning teeth, making food or drink, eating, putting shoes on, or playing with toys and putting them away again. All of these activities would give you a fantastic opportunity to work on first, next, and last. Pause the video here to gather your child's favourite book. If you can, take some pictures of key parts of that story. You might want to pick a page from the beginning, a page from the middle, and a page from the end. When you've got these pictures ready, come back to the video and press pay to continue. Now that we've got these pictures of your child's favourite book, we can have some fun sequencing these as well. Working sequencing into as many of your day to day activities will really help to benefit your child. Gradually work towards the child sequencing more pictures of events to show a greater understanding of the stages that need to be completed. Well, that brings us to the end of today's lesson. But a really big well done on all the fantastic work you've put into sequencing today. Don't forget to share your hard work with school. And if you'd like, you could ask your parent or carer to send a picture of your work to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter by tagging @OakNational so I can see the progress that you're making too. All that's asking me to say is thank you. But take care and enjoy the rest of your learning for today. Bye bye.

Early reasoning and information processing skills are critical for learning. This lesson aims to support children in the early stages of development to be able to find and collect relevant information, and then be able to sequence it. Activities are centred around sequencing pictures of themselves completing highly familiar tasks and then work towards more abstract sequences.

Beginning to sequence

Verbal reasoning

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Early reasoning skills

More early reasoning skills

More early thinking and reasoning skills

Beginning to categorise

Beginning to name

Beginning to describe

Beginning to retell

Beginning to predict

Beginning to understand others

Beginning to problem solve

More thinking about why

Having fun with problems

Lesson overview: Beginning to sequence

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14 lessons in Verbal reasoning: