The teacher should put an emphasis on controlling the object or body. This means helping the learner to understand what happens when they change direction, stop, dodge, guard, jump and land, as well as when they send or receive an object like striking, catching, throwing, propelling and collecting. A gradual progression will occur with practicing control in a variety of situations. Key idea is body management and control of an object to intended place with force and consistency in gradually increasing whole class to small group games.

Focus on practicing skill and control together. Combined skills like dribbling and passing, or bump-set-strike with modified equipment, or field and throw a ball to base. Rules are emphasized that limit play to enable more challenging gameplay situations. The students should develop teamwork and cooperation with their peers. In this stage teachers could use modified versions of sports games to help students with both skill and control.

Less focus needed on skill acquisition with students not having to devote their time and attention to ball control. Students’ ability to execute basic skills should allow them to focus on offensive and defensive skills. Emphasis placed on establishing ways to obtain and maintain possession of the object in territory games, or where to send the object and where to go in net/wall and batting/fielding games. Invasion and net activities are great for learning offensive and defensive roles in small sided and one-on-one situations. Complexity is developed by gradually adding players, boundaries, scoring and/or rules for the conduct of the activity.

Modified games with changes in the rules, boundaries, number of players as progress towards full game and specialized positions. Individual skills becoming developed to a high level. Basic game strategies acquired and demonstrated. The games are continuous and rules are now more for making the games flow and feed into the full adult games. In this stage offensive and defensive roles in team games become specialized and students start to locate their own style of play in more individual games like badminton and tennis. This is not a time to just let the kids play the game but to get them to play the game well.