While meeting with a small group of students for guided reading (where they are supported to learn to use reading strategies), our other students were learning to develop their literacy skills through various activities.
Using magnetic strips to support decoding and visual strategies for learning and spelling patterns
Listening Post
Early Words
Choosing a book from their book box and read to self or to a buddy
Practicing decoding skills by match pictures to words
Students worked on the letter 's' today. They listened to the first sound while looking at the picture card, read the letter and wrote the letter in response to hearing the sound on their whiteboards.
Afterwards, students found pictures starting with 's', cut it out and paste it onto a sheet.
We have been learning the letter 'l'. Students practice writing it, saying the letter name and sound and then did and activity on the Notebook. There was some great co-operation on display, also with some visitors from the Kindy.
Students showed how they learned a beginning letter sounds. They used Explain Everything to complete an activity and then drew a picture about something starting with the letter 'r'.
Task:
Use Explain Everything, take a photo and complete the activity. Add another page and draw a picture starting with the letter / sound.
Students did a letter game (in two groups). Someone pulled out a letter from a container, students made the letter sound and then coloured it in on their sheet...
Students had the opportunity to use white boards, coloured word cards, letter punches and stencils to practice their sight words. This also assists in getting them to practice fundamental fine motor skills and helped with learning to spell their words correctly.
In this activity students had to read their book independently and organised information to re-tell the story to show their understanding of the book.
Students had to:
- Re-tell the story in a quick way with all the important parts
- Think about the type of text: fiction / non-fiction
- Say what they liked about the story
Challenge:
Use 'Tellagami' to create a project / product.
How?
Students created a 'Tellagami' to share a quick animated video. They saved their completed Gamis to the iPad camera roll and then published the Gami on their ePortfolio.
Students engaged with word families for our activity.
Students are learning to:
- Recognise, read and write word families
- Use letter patterns to create new words
- Read words that have similar patterns with fluency
Challenge:
Use 'Popplet' to create a project / product.
How?
Students added a picture that is part of the word family in the middle and added text by typing along the bottom of the popple. They continued adding words that rhyme with the chosen word family. Once they were finished, the saved their popplet to the iPad camera roll.
Challenge:
Use more than one app to create a project / product.
The Challenge How:
- Open Explain Everything
- Import the Popplet
- Talk about what they did
- Publish on their ePortfolio
Students showed how they are learning a beginning letter sounds by taking photos of items that begin with a letter that they are learning.
Task:
Find pictures that begin with a specific letter (choose one that you are still learning about)
The How:
- Used their iPad to take photos of different things that begin with the letter ___
- Open Pic Collage
- Import the pictures
- Save collage to the iPad's camera roll.
Challenge:
Use more than one app to create a project / product.
The Challenge How:
- Open Explain Everything
- Import the Pic Collage
- Talk about the letter
- Publish on their ePortfolio
