Have your students sit comfortably before you and encourage them to listen attentively.
- tell your students that you will help them create a picture in their mind
- tell them you will help them think about how things go together in the picture in their mind
- tell them that you know about a special cave for an octopus in the ocean
- suggest that it would be nice to visit the cave and see the octopus but to gain entry they need to remember a secret message
- tell them you will help them create a visualization to remember the secret message
- tell them a secret message - a list of words (depending on your students auditory memory, select an appropriate number of words)
- e.g. The secret message is: fish, seaweed, rocks
- encourage students to make a little story with the words and then to picture the story in their mind - e.g. In my story, I see a fish swimming through seaweed. There are rocks underneath.
- tell your students to now imagine swimming down to the octopus cave, thinking about their story as they go
- provide some time and let students make some gentle sea/ocean movements as they imagine swimming down to the bottom of the ocean
- now ask one student to share the secret message (list of words in correct order) after thinking about the picture in their mind
- encourage students to turn to a partner and tell the secret message
- repeat with new words and stories, increasing the number of words in the list as your students get better with visualization and auditory memory
We have a page in the Premium Club for your learners to draw something in the octopus cave too!
