Activities

Activities to Enhance General Literacy Skills

Children will often copy text verbatim with the result that very little learning takes place. The following list contains a variety of techniques / strategies for the more effective reading of texts.

Aims

To develop a framework for a more systematic approach to texts
To encourage a reflective response from the children to texts

Typical Activities

Underlining and labelling diagrams

Enables pupils to pin down the important parts of texts
Useful for picking out ideas
Assists with classification

Sequencing

Focuses attention on logical order
Focuses attention on syntactical clues

Completion of Cloze exercises

Requires careful consideration when making deletions
Too many deletions result in task which are too difficult or too boring
It is essential that this activity includes discussion

Prediction of Text

Focuses attention on logical order
Encourages pupils to justify their responses and to challenge the responses of others

Word games – word searches, crosswords

Question and answer activities – could include multiple choice and discussion

Writing speech balloons

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