Literacy Suggestions

Screen Free Literacy:

• Writing:

  • 1. Write your own book.

    2. Draw your own comic

    3. Make a March break journal (you can write about your day or write a story)

• Play with Words:

  • 1. Practice reading these words http://www.uniqueteachingresources.com/support-files/fryfourth100set.pdf

    2. Letter/Word Hunt - use post-it notes to write sight words and have your parent or sibling hide them around the house. Find the words, and write a sentence with them.

    3. Daily Language Review - printable document https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxhc2R0cmFpbmluZ3NpdGV8Z3g6MmI2NjU1Mjg2Njk4NDQyZQ

• Reading:

  • 1. Bedtime reading (read each night before bed- there’s nothing better, especially during this stressful time it will create a coziness that we are all so in need of.)

    2. Read and retell (include characters, setting, beginning, problem, middle, solution, end).

    3. Record yourself reading and share it with your teacher!

Literacy Online:

• Use RAZ kids https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login (Go to school portal to access it and bypass the password)

• Use Starfall.com https://www.starfall.com/h/index-grades123.php click on “I’m Reading”

• Online storybooks (The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.): https://www.storylineonline.net/

• Use Book Creator on the student portal https://sites.google.com/a/ocsbstudent.ca/k-6/