Answer to Question #199461 in English for Mpho

Question

Briefly demonstrate how you would provide opportunities for learners to learn about 2-D

shapes in the following ways:

• Visual skills

• Tactile (touch) skills

• Verbal skills

• Movement (kinaesthetic) skills.

Answer 1

1. Through visual skills an educator can promote learning of 2-D shapes by use of posters. The shapes are drawn in the posters and shown to learners.

2. The learners can touch models and wooden blocks shaped in the specific 2-D shapes.

3. In using verbal skills, a learner can sing a song about 2-D shapes. Also the learners can verbally name the shapes drawn on the classroom whiteboard.

4. Learners can go outside and draw 2-D shapes in the sand. Also they can play a game of forming specific shapes together as a group.