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Elklan. Speech and Language Support for 3-5s%u00a9 Elklan Training Limited 2023 102S5%u2022 5.2.4 2 ICWs%u2022 Use a cow, trailer, horse and truck. %u2018Put the cow in the trailer.%u2019 %u2018Now how many words did he have to understand?%u2019%u2022 Answer %u2018The child had to understand two words because there are now two choices; did I say cow or horse, trailer or truck (hold up fingers to indicate the 2 choices as you say them). Now two words carry essential information for the child to understand the instruction. This is a two Information Carrying Word instruction.%u2019%u2022 Use a different coloured pen, underline the ICW writing the choice i.e. %u2018truck%u2019 under it. %u2018Put the cow in the trailer%u2019horse truck 2 ICWs%u2022 Write %u20182 ICW%u2019 at the end of the sentence.5.2.5 Examples to include verbs and possessive nouns%u2022 So far we have made it harder by adding objects. You can have other choices.%u2022 Demonstrate: %u2018Make the cow run%u2019 horse eat jump%u2022 This involves verbs.%u2022 Write the sentence on the flipchart and ask learners to identify the ICWs.%u2022 Use this example to show how within one choice e.g. action, you can have many examples e.g. run, eat, jump etc.%u2022 Flip back to previous example and add more examples of animals to reinforce this point. %u2018Where%u2019s the cow%u2019s tail?%u2019 horse%u2019s nose%u2022 This involves possessive nouns.%u2022 Write the sentence on the flipchart and ask learners to identify the ICWs.5.2.6 3 ICWs%u2022 To make things harder, you can add more objects at 3/4 ICWs.%u2022 Use a cow, trailer, horse, truck, pig, sheep etc.%u2018Put the cow and pig in the trailer.%u2019%u2022 %u2018Now how many words did he have to understand?%u2019