The three period’s lessons provide a child with a precise vocabulary for what s/he has taken in, as the directress gives explanations or extraneous words. The establishment of vocabulary for sense impressions makes possible communication between oneself and others, regarding common human experience. It consist of Association, Recognition and Recall- First Period : Association gives a name to a sense-perception. The name is spoken distinctively –“This is red.” “This is yellow.” Second Period : Recognition allows the child to point to the object, sound, or word, given a verbal clue-“ Show me the yellow.” “Show me the red.” If a child is showing difficulty here in identifying the objects with verbal clues, the child is NOT ready to continue and remain in the Second Period phase with the child. Third Period: With Recall, one asks the child to remember the words associated with the concept without verbal cues: “What is this ?”(the last concept named in the Second Period, only if the Third Period is done directly after the Second Period.)“What is this ?”
So, in short the three period lesson, is where a teacher present an activity with the following purpose in her mind-
1. To name of the object, for example, "This is an apple."
2. To know if the child recognize and associate, for example, "Show me an apple."
3. To recall the first 2 steps, for example, "What is this?"
An important thing to know here is that when a teacher names more then 1 object, for example - 1 2 3 4, in the second period, she ask the last object she named in the first period, for example - 4 3 2 1. So, it goes backwards, the reason is that we want to ask the child which he remembers fresh. Most likely in the child's memory the name you named last will be more fresh then the 1st name. Then again, for the third period, she ask 1 2 3 4, and so on.
