Crossing the Road (3)
Children don’t always know which is left
and right. To help, the right hand can be referred to as the one with
which most children use to write and the other as the left.
Location
Use the school premises or a quiet street without parked cars near
the school to do this exercise.
Method
- Walk the child to the kerb/edge of the pavement and stop. At the
same time call out "STOP".
- Take the child’s head in your hands and gently turn the head
to the right, asking: "Can you see anything coming?"
- Repeat this action for the left and again for the right side,
each time asking the child if he/she can see vehicles approaching.
- Only on hearing the word "no", take the child’s hand
and lead him/her across the street. But tell the child to continue
to LOOK and LISTEN for traffic. If a vehicle is seen
approaching, the child must stop and the repeat the actions of
looking right, left and right again.
- Repeat this exercise a few times before asking the child to
demonstrate the exercise.
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