Total Physical Response Research Paper

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Total Physical Response and Total Physical Response Storytelling teaches students commands and command responses through physical movement. This requires the teacher to act out the commands/words by demonstrating them with movement. An example would be teaching the word run. The teacher would say run then start running and repeat the word several times. After demonstrating the word, the teacher would of the students follow suit by repeating and acting out the motion. The teacher then would slowly release responsibility of acting out to the students. Eventually, the teacher would only say the word run with the students performing the action.
This strategy can be used in multiple application throughout the classroom such as routines, giving directions, and classroom procedures. An important topic that a teacher needs to teach students at the very beginning is emergency procedures. For …show more content…

Although mainly used in special education, the use of a teacher made P.E.C.S book (Picture Exchange Communication System) can be used for struggling students who still do not understand the commands. This also can serve as a communication between the student and teacher for teachable moments when the student wants to communicate. The teacher can have a picture of the command along with the English word and the native word. The thing that might hinder a student using P.E.C.S is relying/depending on the book to communicate. The teacher must encourage, using positive reinforcement, the student of moving away from using it once the he/she is capable of communicating without it. One way of telling if a student is grasping the commands is to use the P.E.C.S book, if he/she is willing, to tell a story to the other students using the pictures they have in the book. Once the teacher observes understanding of each word or command, he/she removes that picture until all are

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