Weekly Content Update | Making Inferences & More Adjectives
This week our film team uploaded a collection of clips designed to help students practice inferencing skills. We've also added a second batch of visual generalizations combined with conversational skits to teach adjectives, and we've updated and expanded image words teaching animal names and clothing vocabulary.
Making Inferences: What Am I?
The ability to make inferences involves reasoning and critical thinking skills that are an important part of spontaneous conversation. Strong inferencing skills can help children recall the names of people, places, and things from memory when they hear associated verbal clues. Practicing inferencing skills can strengthen your child's ability to think critically and can help increase the breadth of associations available to him or her during conversation.
Our What Am I? inferencing clips are designed to model and support this kind of practice. In each clip, one child asks a second child, "What am I?" and provides a series of verbal clues to help the second child guess what she is pretending to be. As each clue is spoken, the list of possible answers becomes narrower. After all clues have been shared, the second child thinks of an object for which each statement is true and says her answer out loud.
The inferencing activity modeled by these clips is easy to generalize at home. When you're not watching Gemiini, think of something your child can name. Using language your child can receptively understand, give verbal clues and prompt your child to name the object you are holding in your mind. If your student has trouble at first, try giving more clues or saying the initial sound of the word out loud.
These clips are located in Skills → Inferences → General. Be sure to check out the Intraverbal & Critical Thinking section of our QuickStart Skills library for more video assignments targeting skills related to making inferences.
More Adjectives
Last week we uploaded the first batch of clips pairing visual generalizations with contextual sentence examples to teach adjectives. This week we've made a few updates to improve the effectiveness of the visual generalizations. We've also added a second batch of adjectives to Spoken Language → Descriptive Words (Adjectives And Adverbs) → Describing Objects.
Image Words
Our image word updates this week include changes to some of the outdated images in Spoken Language → People, Places, Things → Animals → Birds. New clips teaching vocabulary related to clothing have been added to Spoken Language → People, Places, Things → Clothing.
For help using any of our clips in your student's assignments, schedule a call with one of our product specialists. If you're having technical trouble or need help getting started, check out the articles in our Knowledge Base. If you're looking for clips that don't exist on the site, please send a content request to videos@gemiini.org.