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WElcome to our Literacy page. Here you will find tips and ideas to help your son engage with learning in a fun way.
Just 10 minutes reading with your child each day makes a difference, no matter how old he is!
Some Useful Links:
Paired Reading Tips
How to choose the right book for your child?
Graded supplementary readers
Developing your child's Fluency
Building Vocabulary
Paired Reading Tips
How to choose the right book for your child?
Graded supplementary readers
Developing your child's Fluency
Building Vocabulary
Word activities
Word Games – could be used with P.A.T words/ spellings
Pass the Parcel Place words in an envelope, while music is playing the children will ‘pass the parcel’. When the music stops, the person with the envelope needs to take the words out and read them. Award 2 points for independent reading and 1 point if the child needed assistance from a peer. Win a sticker at the end. Ghost Game Words in a box/ bag and a laminated picture of a ghost. Children take turns to pick out a word. Try to read the word and pass it on. When someone picks out the ghost they shout ‘BOO’ and they are the winner. Everyone else puts cards back in and start again. Domino Game Have some words with domino spots on the back. One child rolls the dice and then picks up the word with the number of spots on the back of it. They read what the word is (or list 2 words with the ending chosen from PAT). Jump the Lily Pads Have hoops on the ground with words/ PAT endings written in chalk/ laminated OR roll the dice and jump the number of lily pads the dice says and read the word it says or name 5 words with the particular word ending you land on OR throw a bean bag and whatever hoop the bean bag lands in you read the word it says or name 5 words with the particular word ending you land on. Find the Word Place all the words on the table again and ask the child to point to the word that starts with the sound /s/ or ends with the sound /s/. Pick other letter sounds or letter patterns e.g. /-ad/, /-ing/, /-at/etc. Repeat After Me Place each card on the table one at a time and say the name of the word e.g., “this is the word shop”. Ask the learner to put the word into an oral sentence. If they have difficulty with this, give them an example and get them to repeat your example or give their own sentence. *Flashcards can be made using the PAT endings or the PAT reading lists linked alongside this. P.A.T
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listening activities
Listening Skills
Developing children’s active listening skills ensures their ears are finely tuned to language and its component parts.
Listening Games
Developing children’s active listening skills ensures their ears are finely tuned to language and its component parts.
Listening Games
- Chinese whispers
- Headbanz: Each child places a picture card on their forehead and they must ask the other children questions in order to guess what is on their picture.
- Simon says
- I went to the shop and I bought a ...
Each child must mention an item they bought in the shop after recalling the items mentioned by the others in the group. - Clapping commands: One clap means stand, two means march and three means sit. Children sit in a circle and one child claps the commands for the rest of the group.
literacy games
Sight Vocabulary |
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Links for sight words below.
first_hunded_words_checklist.pdf | |
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2nd_hundred_words_checklist.pdf | |
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