Reading the target and scoring
Ready when: Range rules and commands (b1) started.
What you are learning
How a target is scored, ring by ring, and how to read a group of shots: where its middle is and which way it is off from the centre. Coaches use the group, not one shot, to fix a shooter's aim.
Words on this card Target face, Group
- Target face
- The printed target, and its rings numbered 1 to 10.
- Group
- Where a set of shots landed, and the middle of that set.
Set up
A printed target face with scoring rings; a pencil; 10 sample shots drawn as dots on paper.
Weather: any weather
Show it first for the one teaching
- Point to the rings: 10 in the middle, down to 1 on the outside.
- Score a dot that touches a line: it gets the higher ring.
- Circle all the dots and mark the middle of the circle: the group centre. Say which way it is off: "high and left".
Your part while they practise
Check the child's scoring.
Step by step
- Score 10 drawn shots by their ring.
- Add up the total.
- Find the group centre.
- Say which way the group is off.
How much: 10 shots 6 min a session 2 days a week
Say one thing Pick one line from "What you will see" for today and say only that.
The game: Score race
You draw a group of 10 shots; the child scores it before the timer runs out.
Who plays: the child against the clock; swap so you score the child's drawing.
How to play, turn by turn
- Turns
- Draw 10 dots on a target face
- Start a 1-minute timer
- The child writes the score of each dot and the total, and says which way the group is off
- 3 rounds
- Fair play
- The grown-up scores with 30 seconds.
- Points
- 1 point for each dot scored right; 2 points for the right total; 2 points for the right direction.
- Fouls
- That dot scores no points
- A line shot given the lower ring
- A dot skipped
- A changed answer after the timer
- Winning
- Beat your best from 3 rounds.
- 20 points for 1 star
- 30 points for 2 stars
- 42 points for 3 stars
Easier or harder
5 shots.
Add a tie rule (shots touching a line).
What you will see, and what to say
- the child scores a line shot low
Touching the next ring counts higher
Give the higher ring. - the child ignores the pattern
Where is the middle of the group?
Circle them all.
Self-check
10 drawn shots scored correctly twice in a row.
Stop and get a coach when
The club uses a different scoring card.
Fitness for this
Warm up first: how to warm up, at workonfitness.com. For strength and stretching, its exercise library shows each exercise step by step, with an easier version.
This card trains reading a target, patience with numbers.
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