Week 5

Literacy - Week 5

(week 5 printable at the bottom of page)

*** Please understand that you are not expected to complete all of these activities ***

It is suggested that you try to complete 4 - 6 activities per week. Of course, you are welcome to complete more if you wish :)

I have included many options to give you a variety of ideas to choose from.

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• Choose any book to read. Talk with another person about how it is the same or different to your own life. Make some connections to other books you have read or shows you have seen. How are they the same or different? If you want, you can create a simple chart with the headings: Book, My Life, Other Stories and record some of your ideas.

• Take a nature walk. If you wish, take some photos, bring home objects like leaves or stones, or draw a picture. Write about what you noticed, what you wonder, how it felt, what you heard. Use some interesting describing words. Read your writing to someone else and ask them if they can “make a picture in their mind’ about what you saw.

• Do a scavenger hunt through books, websites, grocery lists etc to find words that have silent letters in them. Examples: know, gnat, night, type. Make a list. Sort them into categories such as “silent k” “silent gh” “silent g” etc. Discuss with an adult any patterns or relationships you see, the meanings of the words etc.

• Brainstorm some rhyming words. (e.g. cat-sat, bee-free) Write a silly poem (e.g.I glanced in the mirror In my room last night, And what I saw was a crazy sight......

Read it to someone else. See if they can find your rhyming words.

• Find a book or text that has a graphic in it (speech bubble, graph, text box). What does the graphic show that the text doesn’t tell you? If that graphic wasn’t there, what would you think? Why do you think the author uses a graphic here? How does it help you understand or enjoy the text?

• Read a book or magazine of your choice for at least 20 minutes. Next, write a brief review of the book to encourage others to read it. How can you convince them that it is interesting to read?

• Find an object in your backyard or home. Describe what it is made of, who made it and how. Next, read your description to your family or friends and see if they can guess what your object is.

• Do a scavenger hunt for words with silent letters. Look for patterns and sort them into categories such as “silent p”, “silent gh” etc. What strategies or tricks can you think of that can help you to remember how to spell the words? (e.g. SAY the silent letters when spelling p-neumonia OR CONNECT it to and remember it with similar words (night-sight-right)

• A ‘simile’ compares two things using the words “like” or “as”. Examples: Red as a rose, busy as a bee, strong like an ox, flash like lightning. Choose a picture or object and make a list of similes that compare it to other things.

• Choose a book to read. As you read it, stop often and predict what will happen next and why you think that. What clues has the author given you that make you think that will happen? What is the author suggesting but not really telling you in the text? What does the author want you to think? How is the author doing this? Read ‘between the lines’ to think about clues that help you figure things out (clues about a character’s personality, what might happen next, hidden messages...)

• Literacy Week 5 printable