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Module 2: Getting Ready for Writing Teacher’s Guide.
IWB000 - Cutting Activity - Cutting Out Shapes- Dashed Lines
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Objective: Cutting along dotted lines
Lesson Plan:
Learning to hold and handle scissors, whilst coordinating the continuous cutting action to cut along dotted lines.
1. On a table, provide the children with a copy of page 50 from the Activities Manual or off page IWB205 from the IWB programme and a selection of different scissors, including left and right hand scissors.
2. Demonstrate to the children how to hold and support the scissors in one hand, whilst holding the card in the other hand.
3. Demonstrate the action of cutting along the dotted line and stopping at the corner and changing direction.
4. Children can then complete the worksheet by cutting out the other animals.
5. The children can then glue the pictures into the boxes on page 51 of the Activities
Manual or print off the associated page from the IWB programme.
More to Learn:
Dotted lines offer less visual guidance to the children and they begin to learn to cut along an intermittent guide.
Support:
You can help children by photocopying the image to be cut out onto card. This keeps the page more rigid and assists with coordination. Use adapted scissors or hand over hand support, so the children can feel the right movement pattern.
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