Striking with Rackets and Paddles

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Chapter 27

• Striking with Rackets and Paddles

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Chapter 27 Key Points

• Striking with Rackets and Paddles
• Requires the coordination of
• Accurate tossing and dropping the object to be
  contacted
• Visually tracking the object while traveling to
  an appropriate location
• Contacting object while adjusting to weight and
  length of implement
• Are complex skills and should be introduced to
  children after they have experience striking with
  body parts, specifically the hand

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Chapter 27 Key Points

• Teaching Striking with Rackets and Paddles
• Precontrol Level Tasks
• Since difficulty of striking with an implement
  increases with the length of the implement,
  provide children with
• Short-handed, light-weighted implements
• Light-weight and slow traveling object such as
  balloons
• Exploration experiences should include
• Striking various objects, including balls
  suspended from ropes at various heights

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Chapter 27 Key Points

• Teaching Striking with Rackets and Paddles
  (cont)
• Control Level Tasks
• Children can consistently strike a ball and ready
  for for tasks that involve
• Control of direction and force
• Control of aerial pathway of object
• Set up tasks that teach children to focus on the
  ball
• Introduce children to different types of striking
  implements and objects to contact
• Introduce children to sidearm pattern of striking

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Chapter 27 Key Points

• Teaching Striking with Rackets and Paddles (cont)
• Utilization Level Tasks
• Enable children to
• Contact object repeatedly without missing
• Send object various distances and in different
  directions
• Children can apply striking skills in dynamic
  situations using different positions to strike,
  alone and with a partner

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Chapter 27 Key Points

• Teaching Striking with Rackets and Paddles (cont)
• Proficiency Level Tasks
• Help children
• Demonstrate quick moving and reacting patterns of
  striking in game-like situations
• Control both body and implement while traveling
• Select appropriate type of striking when
  responding to an opponent

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Chapter 27 Key Points

• Teaching Striking with Rackets and Paddles (cont)
  
• Progression spiral suggests progression of tasks
• Box 27-2 indicate key developmental
  characteristics
• Activities found in text
• Identifies Tasks
• Identifies Challenges
• Assessment ideas found throughout chapter

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Progression Spiral for Developing the Skill Theme
of Striking with Rackets and Paddles  
PROFICIENCY LEVEL Self-designed racket games
Badminton Volleyball Minitennis doubles Aerial
net games Minitennis Racket Four Square Racket
Corner Ball Wall Ball   UTILIZATION
LEVEL Racket Call Ball Striking in various
aerial pathways in gamelike situations Striking
continuously upward with a group Striking
overhead over a net Striking overhead Striking
to different places around a partner Hitting
cooperatively and continuously with a partner
From Both Sides Now   CONTROL LEVEL Striking
continuously over and through a target Striking
a ball rebounding from a wall Striking an object
and sending it over a net Striking through a
target Hitting to different places Striking at
high and low targets To the wall againSideways
(sidearm backhand pattern) To the wallSideways
(sidearm forehand pattern) Striking for hoops
(varying the distance) Striking for distance
(varying the force) Striking to wall targets
Both Sides (of the paddle) Now Ups, Downs, and
Forwards Up Against the Wall (striking forward)
Ups and Downs Ups Downs   PRECONTROL
LEVEL Upward Bound Hit the wall Striking a
suspended ball Balloon strike (lightweight
paddle) Paddle balance