Do-It-Yourself Practice Game Template (Page 2 of 2) in pdf

Pick a practice task

Pick a number

Keep track of repetitions

Add some action

Assessment

1.Check your lesson notes - your teacher

Random number generation

After you play a piece of

1.If the practice point is

The goal is for the

has probably assigned speciﬁc tasks.

can reduce friction between

music, you cannot step back

something physical, like

student to be able to do

Make sure you include them!

student and practice coach.

and say “Look at what I just

hand position or posture,

this independently.

2.You can also discover practice tasks on

You are not telling the

accomplished!”. Music

using a practice aid that the

Allowing the student to

your own - use the “hesitation/

student how many times to

disappears immediately after

student can feel provides a

decide if a repetition is

correction/exclamation” rule. Any spot

do the task, the dice are

performance. Providing

constant reminder without

successful teaches the

that makes you hesitate, correct

telling the student how many

some visual way of tracking

nagging from the practice

practice coach how well

yourself, or exclaim in surprise or

times to do it. And the

repetitions can increase a

coach.

the student understands

frustration is a spot that can be isolated

student rolled the dice, not

student’s sense of

2.Moving between repetitions

the goal, teaches the

as a practice task.

you :-)

cumulative accomplishment.

shifts the emphasis from

student self-assessment,

3.Random selection can also be used for

maintaining a position or

and gives the student a

choosing the order of practice tasks.

idea to getting into position

sense of control over the

This is useful for general review or for

or recalling an idea,

process.

time management - group slips into

developing habit strength for

sets and do one from each set if you

getting started correctly.

can’t cover them all in one practice.

Random draw of songs/tasks written on slips of

Dice

Tick marks on paper

Balance a small object or toy on part

After each repetition ask:

paper.

Many different sizes and shapes

Beads on abacus

of the instrument.

“Do we count that one?”

Hide & seek:

for numbers from 4 to 100 - apps

Coins

Balance a small object or toy on part

Criteria for success must be

Look for hidden slips such as Post-it notes stuck

are also available to generate

Jar of small objects:

of the student’s body.

very speciﬁc eg. “Was your

around room, hidden in Easter eggs, buried in a

various dice on your device

Beans, coins, marbles, popcorn

thumb straight that time? “

bowl of sand/peas/beads/marbles

Playing cards

(when the jar is full you can pop

Create a “model” of desired

Go Fish:

Remove face cards, leaves 1-10

the corn and watch a movie :-)

result before counting reps

Use a string with a magnet to “ﬁsh” strips out of a

Spinner

Small toys or stuffed animals

Two columns for tick marks:

bag or bowl (paper clips on the slips will make

Roulette wheel or “Decide now”

Dot-to-dot puzzles

“successful” and “not quite”

them magnetic)

app

Colouring:

For older students, use the

Puzzle:

Calendar day cards

•Hidden picture colour by number

“scientiﬁc method”:

Stick tasks on the back of puzzle pieces, do each

From pocket charts: 1-31

puzzles

1.Problem: how many times

task as you complete the puzzle.

Magic tricks

•Charts or pictures with speciﬁc

will it take before every

Apps:

(cards and dice in a different

number of elements

attempt is successful?

2.Create a hypothesis: x

Apps for your device, such as “Decide now”, allow

context)

•Mandalas or other “adult”

you to create your own spinner for random

Small packages of multiicoloured

colouring book designs

times

selection of items

objects

Draw a picture

3.Test the hypothesis

Pick a colour and open packet -

One element for each rep

4.Assess level of success,

as many of the colour is how

and create new hypothesis

many repetitions you do

to test if necessary.

Board game adaptations combine random number generation (dice) and

Take a step forward for each correct repetition, a step backwards for

visual tracking of cumulative accomplishment (you get to the end of the

each incorrect one, towards a pre-set goal. Can use steps on staircase

game).

if appropriate.

If you can increase the number of balanced objects, you can create a

repetition tracking game along with the physical reminder.

Take your song “on tour” - moving to different places for each repetition

combines physical movement with tracking number of repetitions. Movement

can be as small as one step or as big as moving to a different room.

Sports adaptations promote “keeping score” (the goal is to get the most successful repetitions), can incorporate movement between repetitions

(move to the next base), and independent assessment of success (“did that one reach the goal, or did it go out of bounds?”)

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