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This pack offers a structured and visual approach to aid children’s understanding of how and why people use sarcasm, and to recognising sarcasm both through context and intonation. The pack will help to demonstrate that sarcasm may be signalled by intonation alone, but also by the context in which the utterance is made – an example is when someone says ‘Lovely day’ when in fact it is pouring with rain!
Full of Helen Rippon’s engaging illustrations, this resource will be useful to practitioners working on social communication skills with pupils who have Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
Suitable for use with children aged 7 years+
For more information see below.
Sarcasm is a form of humour that involves saying the opposite of what is meant. When a speaker uses sarcasm, the listener understands the intention by detecting a range of subtle verbal and non-verbal cues, which may include:
The resources in this pack consist of twelve illustrated scenarios where sarcasm in the dialogue can be detected by a correct ‘reading’ of the image (understanding the context).
The cards can be used to demonstrate how sarcasm is used and to explicitly teach the ways to use sarcasm and detect its use. They are suitable for use with pupils from the age of seven years who have social communication difficulties.
The dialogue that accompanies the scenario appears under the picture. Speech bubbles are provided in the pictures where it is not always obvious who is making the comment. Older and more able children may wish to copy the dialogue into the speech bubble.
Background
A study by Capelli in 1990 showed that children between the ages of six to nine years of age could recognise sarcasm when the speakers used sarcastic intonation, but failed to do so without the intonation cue, even when the context strongly indicated a non literal interpretation. In a second experiment, subjects delivered dialogue with intonation they deemed appropriate, and justified their choices, based on contexts that either suggested sarcasm or not. Young children again appeared largely oblivious to contextually implied sarcasm. These results suggest that children initially depend more heavily on intonation than on context.
Children on the autistic spectrum may also find our Idioms pack useful.
Aim: To develop recognition and understanding of sarcasm.
Age Range: KS2, 7 yrs.+
Curriculum targets: KS2 English. Speaking and listening
Format: PDF file, 5 pages instructions, 6 pages of pictures illustrating 12 situations. Available as a download 8MB.
Capelli. CA, Nakagawa, N and Madden, CM. (1990). How children understand sarcasm: The role of context and intonation. Child Development, Vol 61. pp1824-1841
7 to 11 years
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