Literacy/Language Arts Activities

 

We are continuing liven up our literacy activities, by providing more opportunities for collaboration, and also providing some entertaining contexts for games which can be used by the groups who are left to do independent work (while others do their guided reading), but fed up with worksheets and colouring in. We are also now beginning to explore activities than can develop literacy in other languages. Thanks to all of you who provided new suggestions and revisions. You will also find here activities to support Grammar for Writing and literacy across the curriculum. The work on genre is in the English and Literature section. You will also find a lot of activities to support literacy in context in the other online workshop categories. All of the activities have been tried out at Key Stages 2 and 3.

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We have just updated our ING tree by turning into an INGstalk - there is an ED stalk too. Quicklook and Full Activity.

Bunches of this and prides of that plus lots of opportunity for producing witty and irreverent inventions (eg a wobble of jellies or a groan of bad jokes) with our newly full of pictures Collections Game Quicklook here.

Here is our activity is There! Their! which uses aliens to brighten up a rather dull topic. It's a fat file but here is a Quicklook.

Here is Simile bingo. Since activities are using more pictures and are slower to download you can take quick look at in it single page here or download the full activity if you like the look of it here.

Banish nice and pretty! Introduce adventurous, exciting and colourful! with our bingo and connect four solutions for Improving Adjectives .

Try our improve your adverb power game which is geared to Shakespeare to produce sentences like: Juliet jumped enthusiastically up and down on her balcony. or: Cleopatra welcomed her Roman visitor zestfully. No great knowledge of Shakespeare is needed, and anachronisms are most welcome.

This is an activity on putting a book back together, and in doing so identifying all the bits that make it up: headings, index, contents etc etc

This is more of an investigation than a game where you can systematically sort words with c,k, and ck. in them to find out whether there are any rules about spelling them.

Bunches of this and prides of that plus lots of opportunity for producing witty and irreverent inventions (eg a wobble of jellies or a groan of bad jokes) with our Collections Game.

This activity on writing complex sentences is in itself a bit complex and we would welcome some suggestions on livening it up. So please try it out.

Compound nouns fall in and out of fashion and provide some entertaining possibilities for invention. This sorting activity includes bedbugs, gameboys and frogspawn.

Connectives: here are four games to encourage the appropriate use of connectives. They are a bit like bingo/lotto.You have a set of sentences (on topics like food fads, aliens, strange rules for games and information about folk and fairy tales) and you have to be first to find the connectives that make good sense for all your sentences.

This is another connectives activity on poverty in Tudor times designed to encourage more complex and better organised writing. We are planning more activities to support the development of extended pieces of writing. Easily adaptable to other topics so when you have tried it in another context please send the activity to us.

Here's a connectives drama activity about a girl who ate too many ice creams and the consequences thereof. A word of warning: you will need to provide a cut out vomit prop to make the activity work best.

When do you double and when don't you double consonants? Plenty of exercise here with Double Consonant Bingo.

A blockbuster game on consonant clusters.

Fun with modals based on Careful With that Ball Eugene on what could have happened if......

Two activities on plurals: the plural machine which manufactures plurals provided you turn the right knobs, and the One and More than One game which uses dice.

And here are three prefix games: a connect four of course, and another version which is a bit more tricky, and a pairs game. If you are stuck forsome vocabulary for these activities here is a ready made list of words.

Many of you have used the Punctuation Games and now they are online!

Here are two activities on roots: Greek Word Detective and Searching Latin Roots.

This is a snakes and ladders game (we are just about to put the snakes in this so please send us some good examples to include in the activity!) for spelling words with silent letters.

Suffixes can be difficult to join and spell. Try our Connect Four Game.

We have a competition here! Can you write the wordiest wordy maths questions . This is an actitivity that can't decide whether it is a maths or literacy activity. This is good for children who enjoy obscure scientific or historical knowledge. Please send us your prize questions for inclusion on the webpage.

Here is a vowels connect four activity where you have the vowels and some definitions but you have to come up with the words.

If you know a lot of ways how a word isn't spelt then you are on the way to beginning remember how it is spelt. Our wrongspellings investigation will help you, and provide you with a list of commonly mispelt words to which you can add your own.

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Last updated 5th March 2008

 

 

 

 

 

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