North Lanarkshire Active

Literacy
P1 Network
Comely Park P.S
 Phonics
 Use of magnetic boards
 Education City/SMARTboard games

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.
html

 Doorway online
 Flashcards/CVC cards
 Activity - Word on one side, picture on

the other
 Spinner for Vowels
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 Picture cards
 Bingo games – Sparklebox
 Sound riddles e.g. find all the ‘n’ in the rhymes
 Drawing/tracing pictures from matching sound e.g. a =
aeroplane
 Jolly phonics – songs/Education City games/songs
 Use of text – newspaper, catalogues to cut out
pictures for individual sounds
 Pegs with sounds
 Gumball machines with vowels, constants, blends etc
 Beebot
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 Printing of sounds
 Formation of letters e.g. shaving foam, glitter, sand
etc.
 Alphabet soup – coloured water. Alphabet in water
and pick out letter using a ladle then they must all say
a letter beginning with that sound
 Make letters/sounds using string
 Playdoh letters/Pipe cleaner letters
 Trace letters
 Raffia Letters
 Loop card games
 Spelling
 Word tubs
 ICT games e.g. Doorway online
http://doorwayonline.org.uk/

Written activities:
 Partner Spelling/Dictation
 Rainbow Writing, rhyme, capital letters etc.
 Whiteboards
 Flashcards (on SMARTboard)
 Spelling Mats (Partner Task)
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 Wordle
 Cross words/wordsearches
 Games – bingo, snap, loop cards...
 Active Spelling – across and down c a t
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 Reading
 Oxford Reading Tree/Your School Reading Scheme
 Word detectives
 Word Bingo
 Sentence cards
 Sequencing activities
 Retelling the story
 Reading together/Partner reading (with
peers & with older children)
 Paired questioning
 Reading games e.g. show me the word
‘went’
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 Fastest finger first
 Predicting/Summarising
 Design your own book, front
cover...
 Comprehension and follow up tasks
 Use of Self/Peer Assessment
 Use of Traditional Tales!!
 Writing
Our main focus is BIG Writing therefore our main
writing tasks through Active Literacy are reading to
write activities.
 Sentence cards/Flashcards
 Picture stimulus
 Model Sentence Writing – use of SMARTboard
 Writing Activities from Reading Scheme e.g. cut up
old books, workbooks and laminate.
 Writing follow up activities from Reading Scheme
used in school.
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 Weekend news/Weekly Diary
 Writing based on events that have taken place in the
school.
 Topic focused writing
 Use of practical activities prior to writing e.g. Make
jelly then write instructions on how they did this.
 Learning to write their name, surname and the date –
incorporate this into daily routine?
 BIG Writing activities e.g. punctuation karate
 Tracing strips
 Dictation – a sentence with phonic words which ties in
with a story they have read. Draw a picture to match.
 Listening and Talking
 Listen & Do
 Hearsay
 Creating Confident Kids
 Circle Time
 Use of Active Literacy Characters e.g. dress Belle
 Show & Tell
 News time with a partner
 Think, pair, share – topic work
 Inside, Outside Circle (Co-Op Learning)
 Use of individual talks e.g. book talks
 Useful Websites
 www.educationcity.com
 www.doorwayonline.org.uk
 www.literactive.com
 www.learnanytime.co.uk
 www.sparklebox.co.uk
 www.starfall.co.uk
 www.topmarks.co.uk
 www.bigbrownbear.co.uk
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 www.twinkl.co.uk
 www.royzebra.co.uk
 www.primaryresources.co.uk
 www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/liter
acy
 www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/eng
 http://durham.schooljotter.com/coxhoe
 www.tutpup.com