Learning categories 2.0
As we have successfully completed the beginner level for sorting categories, our students now have a basic understanding of the object/category connection and can go forward with more complicated exercises making deeper connections. Through this advanced level, sorting exercises are more challenging and require more concentration.
Why learn classification?
Teaching children to sort in categories in preschool or speech therapy is a fundamental pre-number concept that helps children learn about the world around them
- It helps them to exponentially expand their vocabulary because it allows them to retain and retrieve new words by linking them to a category.
- developing the ability to sort things we see, experience, and learn about, helps children understand and make sense of their world.
How can ABA help acquire a deeper understanding of classification?
As the child goes through the learning process of classification, ABA provides increasing challenges. For example, while the child went through the beginner level, he acquired a basic understanding of categories. Now we present him with more challenging exercises that require more concentration and a profound understanding of classification. In the advanced level, there are:
- difficulties related to the number of items the child has to sort
- how difficult it is to make distinctions between some categories since many objects have more than one class.
How to teach sorting categories to children
The process is similar to the beginner level, the only difference is the number of items and categories the child has to sort. In order to introduce this sorting activity follow these steps:
- Print and laminate the activity file (at the bottom of this page), then cut the different images and task cards
- Use a velcro
- to attach the images to the activity card when the child answers.
- and use another velcro on the back of each activity card for organization and to make it easy to start and put away the activity.
NB: The task cards provide a sample from each class to make it easy for the child to understand what is expected from him.
- Ask the child to “sort the objects with ones that have the same category “.
Download the printable file:
- Sorting items by class advanced level 3 Task cards- sort 15 objects into 3 categories
- Sorting items by class advanced level 4 Task cards- sort 20 objects into 4 categories
ABLLS-R Program Compliant Activities:
- B19 Sorting by class
- Score 3
- Score 4
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