Guess what I have?
Kindergarten and lower elementary
- Identify features that describe an object
- Assimilate information to identify an object
- Analyze an object to determine its identifying features
Strategy steps:
- Put 5 to 10 objects on the table.
- Children and teacher discuss/describe each object.
- Cover the objects.
- Put one of the objects in a bag and describe it.
- Children identify the object.
- Put another object in a large, colorful bag and describe it to the class.
- I have something in my bag.
- It is soft.
- It is black.
- It has four legs and a long tail.
- It has whiskers.
- It says, “Meow.”
- What is it?
- Children identify the object.
- One child takes role of teacher and selects an object for the bag.
- Student describes the object (with assistance from the teacher, if necessary) and the children identify it.
- Repeat until all children have a turn.
Variations: After you have read a story, the teacher can start by saying, “I am thinking of someone in the story who…” After describing a character, have the students identify who it is and then one of them describes a character for the other students to identify.