Welcome to the Literacy pages.
Feel free to browse through the general reading ideas and resources listed below,
or use the menu bar above to browse through the other Literacy areas.

• Prediction - Activities to encourage your children to predict when reading and listening to stories.
• Skimming and Scanning - Fun activities encouraging children to search for specific letter groups.
• Sequencing Activity - Children have to put a jumbled poem into the correct order by reading carefully (worksheets provided)
• Goldilocks Sequencing - A sequencing activity, based on the well-known story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
• Alphabetical Order - PDF containing five lists of Tudor words which children should put into alphabetical order.
• Ordering Books - A fun test to challenge children's ability to put things into alphabetical order.
• What does it mean? - A fun game which reinforce meanings of unusual words.
• Miss out the Vowels! - Write instructions in an unusual way to make children think more carefully!
• 4R - A practical activity which requires good teamwork and Literacy skills.
• Speech, Spelling and Reading Help - Activities to give children help with speech, spelling and reading.
• Feeling Words - Use clay to help children to feel the shapes of words they are learning.

Dictionary Skills:

• Dictionary Game - A great way of encouraging children to familiarise themselves with dictionaries.
• Dictionary Search - A fun game which encourages use of the dictionary.
• Dictionary Definitions - Will your pupils work out the correction definition in this fun dictionary game?
• Are you a Dictionary Whizz? - Different activities to build up dictionary skills. Contributed by Emilie Moon.
• Dictionary Hunt - Can your pupils find these words in their dictionaries and record the pages they found them on? Contributed by Emilie Moon.
• Alphabetical Order - Put these words into alphabetical order, then make up your own alphabet game. Based on words linked to an Art topic.

Reflecting on Reading:

• My Favourite Books - Encourage children to think about their favourite types of books, using this self-evaluation sheet. Contributed by Kirsty Scott.
• The Book Circle - Share a selection of books, and encourage children to reflect on what they have read.
• Sustained Silent Reading - Share the enjoyment of reading with this daily activity.
• Rewarding Reading - Encourage your children to read more, using this brilliant incentive scheme.
• Reading around the Solar System - Encourage regular reading with this simple reward strategy.
• Bookmark Slogans -A selection of slogans which could be used on your own bookmarks.

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Submit your own Literacy Idea!

These contributions are moderated, so they may not appear to other visitors immediately. All ideas submitted here may be added to their own dedicated page on the site at a later date. Please leave your name so that I can credit your contribution, if you would like me to.

You can also submit ideas and resources via email, or using this form.

Links to other sites:

• Artemis Fowl:Trolls!! Operation Round-Up - A highly interactive site based on the story of Artemis Fowl.
• Kids Review - A website which uses ICT to encourage reading.
• Unfortunate Events - A website to support Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books.

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