Literacy+Activities

There are many different activities within literacy that can build children's knowledge of the area. Teachers can use any of the following activities and more. (Hill, 2006)
 * Writing Centres** - Children can make books/text using different mediums, e.g. photo stories, or concertina books where books are made by folding paper or card-board into a concertina which can be drawn on.
 * Alphabet Centres** - This centre can include phonological awareness activities, print awareness and sounds to letter relationships e.g. clapping games to separate the syllables in words. (Hill, 2006)
 * Phonological Awareness** - at the phoneme level, counting sounds e.g. we're going to count sounds in words, how many sounds do you hear in this word 'can' (3). Matching rhyme, we're going to think of rhyming words, which word rhymes with 'crow', cold, grow, pail' (Grow). Identifying Initial/Final ounds in words, I'll say a word two times, tell me what sounds is missing, 'time', 'I'm' (t). I'll say a word two times, tell me what sounds is missing 'time', 'tie' (m) (Goldsworth & Pieretti, 2004).
 * Word Work Centre** - children can play around with words, mostly high frequency words and analogy with onset and rime e.g. making and breaking - make a word, then break it into word families, or onset and rime, then make a list of words with the same rime.
 * Book Browsing Centre** - For children to read independently using books that have been previously discussed or that are of interest to the child.
 * Interactive Literacy Centre** - small groups or pairs read books aloud and then re-enact the books. They can also create their own stories to re-tell through puppets or felt characters.