Games, Ideas and Activities for Primary Literacy (Classroom Gems)

403 Pages·2013·15.544 MB·English

by  Hazel Glynne, Amanda Snowden

Classroom
Gems
Games, ideas
and activities for
Primary
Literacy
Hazel Glynne and
Amanda Snowden
Second Edition
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the The Classroom Gems series
brilliant series
Ready-made ideas, activities and games to transform
any lesson or classroom in an instant.
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The essential tips, tools and techniques to
transform your classroom and become a
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the The Classroom Gems series
brilliant series
Ready-made ideas, activities and games to transform
any lesson or classroom in an instant.
www.pearson-books.com/classroomgems
The essential tips, tools and techniques to
transform your classroom and become a
brilliant teacher.
9781292000992 9781292000985 9781292000954 9781408267776
9781292000978 9781408254172 9781408284841 9781405873925
9780273734420 9780273735649 9780273732501
9781292001005 9781292000961 9781408228098 9781408223260
9781292000947 9781408267745 9781408223239 9781408292051
9780273732464 9780273735946 9780273732488
See what else is available at www.brilliantseries.com
Whatever your level, we’ll get you
Inspirational ideas
to the next one.
for the Classroom
9781408259344 9781408225578
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Games, Ideas Activities
and
Primary Literacy
for
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Games, Ideas
and
Activities
for
Primary Literacy
Second Edition
Hazel Glynne and
Amanda Snowden
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First published in 2010 (print)
Second edition published 2014 (print and electronic)
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Contents
About the authors viii Rainbowing 51
Acknowledgements viii Jigsawing 54
Introduction ix Envoys 56
Statement Game 58
Chapter 1 Speaking and Six Thinking Hats 61
Listening 1
Storytelling
Generic activities and games
Storytelling 66
What’s That Sound? 4 What Comes Next? 68
Telling My News 6 Tell Me a Tale 70
Chinese Whispers 9 Story in a Suitcase 72
W Fortunately/Unfortunately 11
Drama activities
Just a Minute 13
Show What You Hear! 15 Generic Drama Strategies 76
W Wishes and Favourites 17 Hot Seating 78
One for Sorrow, Two for W Thought Tracking 80
Joy and the If Game 19 Telephone Conversations 82
Talk Prompts for Explanation W Freeze Frames 84
and Discussion 22 W Sculpting 86
What Am I? 24 Role on the Wall 89
Who Am I? 27 Conscience Alley 91
W Connections Game 30 Hats, Glasses and Bags 93
How Do You Say It? 32 Marvellous Mimes 95
Barrier Games 34
Jibber Jabber 37 Chapter 2 Reading 99
Super Stuff 39
Generic ideas and activities
Activities to support paired Book Week 102
and group work
Early Word Games 105
W Talk Triangles and Listening Walking About 107
Triangles 44 W Guided Reading Activities 109
Group Roles 46 W Blooming Questions 111
Snowballing 49 W Prompts for Fiction 115
W indicates web resource available
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vi CONTENTS
Reading Journals 118 W News Reports 191
W Activities for Reading Note Making 194
Journals (KS1) 121 W Persuade Me! 196
W DARTs 123 Biography and
W Get the Idea 126 Autobiography 199
Picture It! 202
Phonics
W Graphic Organisers 205
W Draw a Rhyme 132 Concept Map 207
Peel the Post-it! 134 W KWL Chart 209
The Name Game 136 W What Do I Want to Find Out? 211
Tops and Tails 138
Countdown 139
Chapter 3 Writing 215
Fiction and poetry activities
Generic ideas and activities
Talking about Books 144
Writing and the Role-
What Can You See? 146
Play Area 218
Six Hats for Reading 148
Guided Writing Prompts 220
Getting to Know You 150
Writers’ Workshop 223
What Happens Next? 153
Perfect Partners 227
What Is She Like? 155
Change the Form 230
W How Do They Feel? 157
Writing Checklists 232
Wanted! 160
W What Should I Do? 162
Grammar: Playing with
Point of View 164 language
Highs and Lows 166
Add the Adjective 236
So You Want to Be
Guess My Move – Verbs
a Princess? 168
and Adverbs 239
Story Skeleton 170
W Abstract or Concrete?
Non-fiction activities What’s that Noun? 242
W Making the Connection –
Read and Draw 174
Connectives 244
W Cross Me Out 176
W Connective Consequences 246
Fact or Fiction 178
W Pick a Preposition 248
The Sticky Note Game 180
W Consequences – Reinforcing
What Do You Know? 182
Word Classes 251
This Is What You Do 183
W Phrases to Sentences 254
Is It True? 186
W What’s in a Sentence? 256
W Letters 188
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CONTENTS vii
W Name that Paragraph 259 W Story Shapes 322
W Question or Statement? 262 Circles and Graphs 325
Sentence Activities 265 W Story Planners and
Stretch a Sentence 267 Prompts (KS1) 329
W Present to Past – Verb W Story Planners and
Tenses 269 Prompts (KS2) 332
W Say It Right! Using W What Happened When …? 335
Standard English 272 Copycat 337
W Draw a Character 340
Spelling
W Make a Story 342
Spell Away! 276 W Set the Scene 344
Spell Well 279 Playing to the Audience 347
Hot Potato 281
Poetry activities
It’s Raining Words! 283
Spell That Word! 285 Alliterative Alphabet 352
W Words, Words, Words! 288 Rhyme Time 354
More Ideas for Spelling 290 Lovely Lists 356
W Hunt the Homophone 292 Guess Who? 358
Spelling Challenges 294 Playful Poems 361
Not Another Spelling List! 296 Questions and Answers 364
What’s That Word? 298 Behind the Door 366
Spot the Syllables 301
Non-fiction activities
W What’s My Root? 303
Where Does That Word Walk the Talk! 370
Come From? 305 Did You Know? 373
Spelling Prompts 307 W Fact File 375
Activities to Support
Fiction activities
Non-chronological Reports 378
Story Openings 312 W The Cheese Sandwich 380
In the End 315 In the News 382
Story Ideas 317
What Happens Next? 320 Useful websites 386
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