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Reading and Writing Activity - 'My Sandwich'

October 17th 2008 01:25
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Teacher Notes - 'My Sandwich'


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Teacher Notes - 'My Sandwich'.


Notes for teacher/tutor – Making a Sandwich.

This reading/writing activity invites each child to make a sandwich.

This is always a popular activity because it involves eating. The children are following instructions and reading and writing with a purpose. It can be integrated with the Health Learning Area – washing hands before preparing and eating food, eating healthy food and safety first with eating utensils.

You will need:

soap for washing hands

bread (white and wholemeal)
butter
margarine
sandwich fillings for the children to choose from (eg lettuce, cheese, tomato)

a plastic knife for each child
a paper plate for each child on which he/she can make his/her sandwich

Let each child choose white or wholemeal bread, butter or margarine and the sandwich fillings he/she would like.

Give each child the My Sandwich Sheet

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'My Sandwich' - Reading/Writing Activity Sheet


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'My Sandwich' - Reading/Writing Activity Sheet.

My Sandwich

Today I made a sandwich.

In my sandwich I put: (tick or cross)

white bread


wholemeal bread


butter

margarine

lettuce

cheese

other:






Write about your sandwich.

My sandwich






































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What is Behind the Door?

October 24th 2008 01:08
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Notes for Parents/Teachers - 'What is Behind the Door'? - page 1 of 3


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Notes for Parents/Teachers - 'What is Behind the Door'? - page 1 of 3.

Young children need lots of practise at speaking in sentences.
Older children need lots of practise at writing sentences correctly, using a capital letter and a full stop.
Children need to practise reading sentences.
This is a fun activity which encourages children to speak and/or read and write in sentences.
This activity integrates reading, speaking, listening and writing.

Notes for teachers – What is behind the door?

This activity asks children to secretly draw a picture behind the door and write clues so their classmates can guess what has been drawn. Older children can write the clues (writing a sentence for each clue) and read them out to the class or group. Younger children can give oral clues to the class or group (speaking a sentence for each clue).

This activity builds on the enjoyment children feel when they have a secret. It integrates oral and written work, reading with a purpose and group work. It also helps develop fine motor and thinking skills.
1) Ask the children to read the title of the worksheet.
2) Divide the class into groups of two (or whatever number you prefer) and ask the
children to discuss what could be behind the door.
3) Collect a few ideas from the class and write them on a chart (or white/blackboard)
4) Ask the children (if they have not already raised the question) why they think there
is a gap in the title. (Answer: for a colour word)
• Ask the children if they think putting in a colour word changes the idea of what is behind the door? eg Think of something that may be behind a green door. Think of something that may be behind a pink door? (etc)
• Ask the children to decide (each child secretly to him/herself) what colour he/she is going to colour the door on his/her sheet.
• Each child writes his/her chosen colour in the gap in the title. (Hint: have a ‘Colour Word Chart’ for the children to copy from if necessary.)
• Using the colour he/she has chosen ask each child to colour the door on his/her sheet. If time allows children may like to colour the wall and make it into a scene.
5) Cut along the cut line, so the sheet of paper is in two pieces.
• Follow the instructions to cut the door on three sides.
• Fold the door open on the fold line.
• Glue the wall and door onto the bottom half of the sheet, making sure the door is
not glued, so it can still be opened.
6) While the glue is drying ask the children to decide, but don’t tell anyone, what they
are going to draw behind their door. Explain they will write (speak) at least 4 clues
about their picture when they have finished.


7) Hint: If the children are emergent readers and writers it is helpful for you to model
(as below) how the children will write the clues. The idea is to encourage the
children to write in sentences. Before they can write in sentences they have to be
able to think and speak in sentences.

• Draw something (secretly) on a piece of paper eg a mouse. Tell the children you are going to give them 4 clues so they can guess what you have drawn.
• Explain to the children that each clue is to be a sentence. Each sentence is to start
with a capital letter and end with a full stop. Think aloud as you write your first
clue on a chart/whiteboard/blackboard.


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Notes for Parents/Teachers - 'What's Behind the Door'? - page 2 of 3


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Notes for Parents/Teachers - 'What's Behind the Door'? page 2 of 3 .

• Say (as if you are thinking aloud),
My first clue is – ‘It is little.’
• The first word is ‘It’.
How do I write ‘It’?
That is correct, I-t, it and because it is the beginning of my sentence it has a
capital letter.
• Write the word ‘It’, sounding it out as you do so.
• ‘is’. How do I write ‘is’? (repeat steps as for ‘It’)
• ‘little’ How do I write ‘little’? (The children’s response will depend on their
maturity – it is a look-say word). As you sound it out you say, as you write, ‘l-
i-tt’ (I know there are two t’s in little ) ‘l’(and I know’ little’ ends with an’ e’)
– ‘little’.
• What does my sentence end with? - a full stop. Read the sentence.
• My second clue is, ‘It is brown.’ (Repeat steps for first clue).

• Model third and fourth clues.
• Children guess what you have drawn.



8) Each child (secretly) draws his/her picture behind the door on his/her own sheet.
Depending on the maturity of the children, encourage a full scene rather than just the
secret thing.
Shut the door.

9) On a separate piece of paper, each child writes his/her own clues.
10) Work as a class or in groups, allowing each child to read his/her clues, and
listeners guessing he/she has drawn. Encourage confident reading.

Hint: before reading her/his clues each child could show her/his picture, with a closed door and, after considering the scene, her/his peers could guess what is behind the door. However, don’t disclose the answer until after the clues have been read out.



Note: To give children the time required to draw creatively and write correctly this
activity will take at least two lessons.


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Reading and Writing Worksheet - 'What's Behind the Door'? - page 3 of 3


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Reading and Writing Worksheet - 'What's Behind the Door'? - page 3 of 3.

What is behind the door?




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Comprehension Activity - Let's go to Planet Kreaton

January 22nd 2010 09:11
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'Let's go to Planet Kreaton' - Reading and Comprehension Activity - page 1


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Notes for teachers – Let’s go to planet Kreaton

(Kreaton is an imaginery planet)

This activity presents the children with a challenging read and draw activity. Each child is given the instructions and draws what she/he reads.

It is important for a child to be able to comprehend what he/she is reading.

Read and draw activities help develop a child’s comprehension skills.

“Let’s go to Kreaton” offers a complex comprehension activity and could be given to the more mature readers in your class as an extension activity. They will need a reasonable amount of time to satisfactorily and successfully complete this task. They will need to work on a sheet no smaller than A3.

This activity appeals to the child’s imagination.

Give each child an activity sheet. Read through the instructions with the children. Let them work the exercise with as little help as possible.

Observing how each child tackles and completes this activity can provide you with valuable information for your records.

Two worksheets (one more difficult than the other) have been included for this activity. Choose the one which is appropriate for your purposes.




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'Let's go to Planet Kreaton' - Reading and Comprehension Activity - page 2


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Let’s go to planet Kreaton

By reading and following these instructions you are going to draw a scene from the imaginary planet, Kreaton.

Read ALL of the instructions carefully before you start drawing the picture. This will help you draw everything in its correct place.

Tick the box when you have drawn the item.

----------------------------- ----------------------------- ----------------------------- -------------------

Draw three tall, blue and orange trees in the lower left hand
corner of your page. The trees are growing in red soil.

In the top right hand corner draw four Kreaton houses. A
Kreaton house is shaped like a triangle and is always painted
red. Each house has a green triangle chimney and a purple
triangle door.

To the right of the trees draw a big lake. Lake water on
Kreaton is always yellow. Draw the brown Kreaton Monster
which lives by the lake.

Draw a Kreaton spaceship near the centre of your Kreaton-
scape.

What do you think a Kreaton Creature would look like? Draw
four of them in the places where you think they best fit into
your picture.

Draw a purple road meandering from the houses to the trees.

What colour is the rest of the soil? Draw some Kreaton plants
and animals in appropriate places in your Kreaton- scape.

What else do you think would be on Kreaton?
Draw it/them into your picture.

Well done.

Would you like to travel to Kreaton?



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'Let's go to Planet Kreaton' - Reading and Comprehension Activity - page 3


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Let’s go to planet Kreaton

By reading and following these instructions you are going to draw a scene from the imaginary planet, Kreaton.

Read ALL of the instructions carefully before you start drawing the picture. This will help you draw everything in its correct place.

Tick the box when you have drawn the item.

----------------------------- ----------------------------- ----------------------------- -------------------

Draw three tall, blue and orange trees in the lower left hand
corner of your page. The trees are growing in red soil.

In the top right hand corner draw four Kreaton houses. A
Kreaton house is shaped like a triangle and is always painted
red. Each house has a green triangle chimney and a purple
triangle door.

To the right of the trees draw a lake. Lake water on Kreaton is
always yellow. Draw the brown Kreaton Monster which lives
by the lake.

Draw a Kreaton spaceship near the centre of your Kreaton-
scape.

What do you think a Kreaton Creature would look like? Draw
four of them in the places where you think they best fit into
your picture.

What else do you think would be on Kreaton?
Draw it/them into your picture.


Well done.


Would you like to go to Kreaton?


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'Let's go to Planet Kreaton' - Reading and Comprehension Activity - page 4


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Extra Activity:

After the children have completed the ‘read and draw’ activity they could write a story about a visit to this imaginary planet.

Good stories have a beginning, a middle and an end. Some children are inclined to ramble and often their stories go nowhere. To help them write a story, with the ideas flowing and in sequence, it is a good idea for each child to work from a framework.
The framework should be filled in with words and phrases and helps the child create the ideas and backbone of the story before he/she begins to write.

A (Simple) Narrative Framework has been included for this extra activity. It can be used for this story or any other story a child is going to write.

This is how you use the Narrative Framework:

1. Discuss with the children the story they are going to write.

2. Words which will be common to all writers may be written on the board or a chart for future reference.

3. Model to the children how to use the Narrative Framework by telling them what you are thinking as
you fill in the three boxes.

4. Explain the ‘Story Title’ box may be filled before or after all the other boxes have been filled.
Show the children how to write the title of a story. Every word has a capital letter except the small
words.
Look at books from around the room to see how the titles are written.

5. Give the children time to fill in the boxes.

Next Lesson:

6. Using the Narrative Framework you used as a model in the previous lesson show the children how you
turn the words and phrases (ideas) into sentences.
Think aloud as you model how to write one sentence at a time. Explain how the sentences develop into
the story.
If this is the first time the children have used a Narrative Framework keep your story (very) short.
Children easily lose the thread of a story if it is too long.

7. Give the children time to write their stories.
If a child finishes quickly she/he could illustrate her/his story and/or create a cover page which
includes the title and her/his name as the author and illustrator (if they have drawn a picture).

8. Staple the pages into a booklet. Children are proud of their work if it is made into a booklet.

Hint: It is difficult for every child in the class to finish his/her story in the given time. The children
who do not complete their story/illustration in the given time may be happy to finish it at home.



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'Let's go to Planet Kreaton' - Reading and Comprehension Activity - page 5


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My name Date: .

Narrative Framework


Story Title

.
Beginning:

introduce characters

where is your story
taking place


Middle:

develop your story

what happens in your story


The End:

how does your story end



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