Literacy+activities

 There are plenty of ideas for literacy activities around and some may be more useful to a teacher than others. It really comes down to the teacher as to what activities he or she may use in the classroom. Below are just a couple of ideas for Literacy activities:  FOR READING: Guided reading: Guided reading is a great way for children to build their confidence in reading and get immediate feedback from a teacher. Guided reading works in small groups, where 5-8 students are all reading the same book. Some teachers choose to give every child a turn at reading a page, while others let the children all read at the same time. Innovating on a text: This activity encourages the children to finish off the sentence (sentence relates to guided reading book). For example I like..... This is a...... Here is...... Can you find the........? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">Pocket charts: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Teachers can use pocket charts to engage children in the reading activity. The teacher may encourage the children to help here write a sentence about the weather outside, she can ask them what word fits best and challenge them to use describing words; windy, cold, wet, rainy etc.

Chunks is a really fun word game that teachers can use in small groups. The aim of the game is to help children with their reading and spelling. Each child takes turns in turning over two counters, ( a yellow and a green) when the child flips the counters over they need to try make a word. For example, one counter may have  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">pl and the other ane. The child can then make the word plane.
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FOR WRITING: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">When modelling writing on the board the options are enless as to what the teacher may write about. It could be in relation to a book they have read, a special day that is coming up, an activity the children completed before recess, what they children did at recess time etc. The key objective is to give the students clear instructions and ideas as to what they could write about. The teacher can also ask the students to write a reccount or write what they enjoyed most.... it may even be a poem. Again it is up to the teacher to decide what he or she wants the students to do. Once the teacher has modelled on the board or on paper the writing acitivity, he or she needs to tell the class what they are to focuss on in their writing. It may be Upper case letters, it may be spaces between words or correct writing practise; beginning middle and end to a story. Once the activity is finished, the teacher may pick certain students to share their work with the rest of the class.