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Traffic Lights

Age Range: 5 - 7
By: Kerry McArdle

I am a big fan of shared writing!

A really effective way of demonstrating where we need full stops and capital letters is to the use the 'Traffic Light' concept.

Green means 'go' which is when we use a capital letter to start a sentence, Red means 'stop' which is when we need a full stop.

I have a green pen and a red pen which the children can hold and they know when I need to use them.

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Jo

26th April 2011

Great idea!!

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Victoria Terreros

5th September 2011

thank you very much for this one!

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Sophie

5th October 2011

GOLD- Look around the room and get a partner or in a group 5 or less if anyone is onthier own thier out they can only join in when someone else is out or in the next game you play games aloud- only 20 or less

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guest

18th March 2012

My children made up Horn. Where they have to touch the floor and make a horn noise

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Sarah Dryden

12th May 2013

I use traffic jam to get the children to line up quickly.

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Fiona Pitt

24th August 2014

We use speed bump; the children lie down on their back with hands by their side. Traffic jam; the children sit in a line one behind the other and make tooting noises also hump back bridge; they make an arch with their back with hands and feet on the floor. This is a fun game!

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kelly

11th April 2022

Very helpful!

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