Planning appropriate activities to develop and extend language and literacy
The starting point for planning activities is to consider the needs and developmental stage of the children that you are working with. It is also essential to consider the interests of children as this will make a significant difference in terms of their motivation and ability to remember the activity. The following examples of simple activities can be used to develop language and literacy with different ages of children.
1.Activity for speaking and listening: This simple activity helps children to learn conceptual vocabulary and to frame questions. As children become more skilled in speaking and listening, you should find that they begin to use language for thinking and reasoning.
Activity - What’s in my bag?
Place a couple of objects within a cloth bag. With individual or pairs of children, …show more content…
It is possible to do this activity even With older children. It can be differentiated by hiding words that can be put together to make a message.
Activity - Word or letter treasure hunt
Outdoors or indoors hide letter sounds or whole words. At first make it fairly straightforward for children to find them. If working with a group of children, you might like to ration the number of ‘finds’ they can have to avoid situations where some children discover a lot and others are left with nothing. You can also put children into teams so they work together to find what has been hidden. Listen to the children as they work. Afterwards, follow this up with other games such as word or sound lotto, to see if children have remembered the words or sounds.
3.Activity for writing : Children generally write best when they have a real and motivating purpose to write. Letter writing when children know that they are going to get a reply can work well with all ages of children.
Activity - Letter
The starting point for planning activities is to consider the needs and developmental stage of the children that you are working with. It is also essential to consider the interests of children as this will make a significant difference in terms of their motivation and ability to remember the activity. The following examples of simple activities can be used to develop language and literacy with different ages of children.
1.Activity for speaking and listening: This simple activity helps children to learn conceptual vocabulary and to frame questions. As children become more skilled in speaking and listening, you should find that they begin to use language for thinking and reasoning.
Activity - What’s in my bag?
Place a couple of objects within a cloth bag. With individual or pairs of children, …show more content…
It is possible to do this activity even With older children. It can be differentiated by hiding words that can be put together to make a message.
Activity - Word or letter treasure hunt
Outdoors or indoors hide letter sounds or whole words. At first make it fairly straightforward for children to find them. If working with a group of children, you might like to ration the number of ‘finds’ they can have to avoid situations where some children discover a lot and others are left with nothing. You can also put children into teams so they work together to find what has been hidden. Listen to the children as they work. Afterwards, follow this up with other games such as word or sound lotto, to see if children have remembered the words or sounds.
3.Activity for writing : Children generally write best when they have a real and motivating purpose to write. Letter writing when children know that they are going to get a reply can work well with all ages of children.
Activity - Letter