Show And Tell Analysis

Show and Tell is a great activity to promote opportunity to teach children about asking and answering questions because a child can bring his or her favorite item to the classroom and have a conversation regarding it as a whole class: in addition, the child feels a special and everyone get to know the child more. The Show and Tell can be done by how a teacher wants to do. The teacher can create the Show and Tell as one of a daily circle time activity or create an occasion. The teacher chooses few children for a day and ask them to bring their favorite toys or things to show those items: choose few students so that if a child forget to bring an item, it does not affect the activity. The chosen children take turns to introduce their items and let audiences ask questions, such as Who, What, When, Where, and Why. …show more content…
The teacher should act as one of audiences in order to be a model and encouraging the conversation as a whole class and ensure to include questions, Who, What, When, Where, and Why, such as “When did you get it?” or “What do you like to do with it?” Then after all questions are asked, move on to the next chosen child. The Show and Tell can be done by one-on-one as the suggested by The Sandbox Company (2006), such as every child bring an item, and pairs children, then let them take turn to have a conversation regarding of the items. The one-on- one Show and Tell is great activity; however, the teacher needs to move around between children to make sure that their conversation is going