Literacy Activities
Category: Literacy
Newsround
Every day we keep abreast of world events by watching Newsround. We enjoy discussing the news and following different stories across the week.
The website contains the new broadcast, further information linked to the stories and a range of quizzes.
ERIC
In 4.14 we take every opportunity to immerse ourselves in literature and each day we have an ERIC ( Everyone Reading in Class) session where we can relax with a book of our choice.
It is one of our favourite times of the day.
Supporting Detail
To continue our work on Main Idea and Supporting detail we applied the strategies to a media clip.
First we watched the clip then we worked in teams to discuss and agree upon the main idea of the clip. We used supporting details to justify our main idea decision.
It was fun applying our strategies in a new context!
Main Idea – Supporting Details
After learning about the strategies for finding the main idea of a text we decided to look more closely at supporting details.
In teams we read through sentences that provided supporting details linked to animal survival and matched them with the main idea.
We had to work together to cut out the sentences, listen to them carefully and then discuss which main idea they were linked to. It was challenging and fun!
Handwriting
We have been striving to improve our handwriting in P4. It has been fun learning new joins and developing our handwriting style.
Main Idea
Our reading skill this week is Main Idea. Yesterday we learned some strategies for finding out the main idea from a text. They included:
- Looking at the title and headings
- Reading the first and last sentences or paragraphs
- Searching for repeated information
Then we worked in groups to figure out the main idea of a collection of mini paragraphs using the strategies above.
Today we are applying our knowledge to an unseen text to see if we can use our new skills.
Language Activities
When the children have completed their teacher led language activities they have a range of different approaches to extend their learning within language.
There are active ways to revise spelling words.
Reading and comprehension activities.
As well as ways to develop their writing. Today a group worked together to write a puppet show that they have asked to show to the nursery.
All of these activities are available every day and the children can choose the area of language that they want to develop and the active learning approach that suits them.
Reading Rocks!
This morning we were introduced to a new to us resource to help develop our reading skills and expand our general knowledge.
The cards contain a mix of fiction and nonfiction texts with questions for the children to answer and mark independently.
There was a real buzz in the classroom this morning and when asked to describe the activity the words given included:
- Challenging
- Fun
- Entertaining
- Interesting
I wonder what interesting facts the children will share with their families tonight?
Reading Skills – Sequencing
Last week the reading skill we were developing was character analysis. This week we have changed our focus to sequencing. The class is interested in nature and food so we learned about the way cows turn grass to milk.
First we read the article in pairs then we organised the pictures of the process into a flow chart to show the correct sequence.
We are looking forward to using our sequencing skills in other curricular areas too!
