Literacy, Literature and Languages
Activity Sheet Name: What’s behind the Dd door?
Year Level/Age Group: Prep (5-6 yrs)
Objective: To reinforce initial sound knowledge and understandings – Dd.
Instruction: Children are given a copy of the activity sheet (you may like to copy it onto coloured card). Cut the door along the double lines – this will give you an opening door. On a separate piece of paper, children draw something beginning with Dd. Glue to the back of the ‘What’s behind the Dd door?’ page so it can be seen when the door is opened. Finished work makes a great class book which the children will love to revisit!
Download: Whats behind the Dd door - Literacy.pdf (47Kb)
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Activity Sheet Name: Tt TV
Year Level/Age Group: Prep (5-6 yrs)
Objective: To reinforce initial sound knowledge and understandings – Tt.
Instruction: As a class, list things beginning with Tt. Each child is given a ‘Tt TV’ activity page and asked to draw something beginning with Tt. Reinforce the high frequency words ‘I can see a _____’ and encourage the children to ‘have a go’ completing the sentence starter. Put finished work together to make a class book.
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Activity Sheet Name: How to plant a seed
Year Level/Age Group: Prep (5-6 yrs)
Objective: Introducing flora concepts. Introducing procedural writing to beginning writers.
Instruction: This activity works best when used during a ‘Plants and Gardens’ unit, where children have had lots of hands-on experiences planting seeds and caring for a garden. After modeling the writing process for ‘How to plant a seed’, children are each given a copy of the activity sheet. Children cut out the sentences and put them in order. These may be pasted back onto the activity sheet or, as a handwriting task, children copy the simple sentences onto the lines provided. To complete the task, children need to draw a picture to match each sentence.
Alternatively, for more experienced writers, this can be completed as an independent writing task. Begin by having children fold a piece of paper into six squares and label each square from 1-6. In each square, illustrate the different steps involved in planting a seed. As a class, brainstorm the ‘helpful’ words they will need to complete their writing task (e.g. dig, soil, sun, water). Children are then ready to attempt this procedural writing task, using both the word list and their numbered illustrations. This is a great task as even beginning writers’ experiences success with the visual aides and word lists.
