Literacy+Activities

__ Literacy activities __

Activities which help develop the children’s reading ability:  How to teach matching sounds to letters or words:
 * The child’s name- ask the child to write their name and provide help when necessary. As the child writes, ‘talk about the idea that words and letters tell us information. Point out that a name is a word and that there are letters in a word.’ (Hill 2006, pg.181) This is a starting point for understanding the concepts of word, letter and one-to-one matching of voice and print when reading
 * Making words- cut up individual letters and ask the children to put together a whole word, for example ‘cat’

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Riddle game which helps with reading:

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 Activities which help with their writing skills:
 * Letter tracing- ask the children to trace words which will help them to learn how to write the word
 * Writing sentences- ask the child to tell you a simple sentence and see if they can spell out the words. See if the child can write the sentence, and provide support when needed.

How to teach name writing:

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