Literacy Activities Giving Instructions

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What is the easiest route (with fewest changes) from: South Kensington to Lancaster Gate Moorgate to Knightsbridge Kilburn High Road to Westminster Monument to Hyde Park Corner Work with a partner to give instructions on one of the following: How to get from your house to school How the scoring system works in cricket, tennis, netball, football or hockey How to access your work online What are the 3-5 essential top tips for giving good instructions?

Literacy Activities Explaining Redesigning the OLC

A real project Design a blueprint for the OLC to present to the new OCL manager. Plan the blueprint taking into account of the following: Who should use it and when? What should breaktime and lunchtime use be? What works at the moment? What doesn’t work? What would you like more of? How would you like to use the OLC?

When you have discussed it… Draw up your plan showing what the space would look like. Your plan should include: Clear labelling Colour if possible An explanation (two or three paragraphs) of how you would like the space to work, and how you would like to be involved in its creation

Literacy Activities Decoding unfamiliar words Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (phobia of long words)

Matching Phobias Phobia…. Ablutophobia Agyrophobia Ailurophobia Alektorophobia Aphenphosmphobia Arsonphobia Aviophobia Autonomatonphobia Fear of… Fear of cats Fear of flying Fear of being touched Fear of fire Fear of crossing the street Fear of bathing Fear of chickens Fear of vehicles Check your answers by looking them up on your iPad. You will need to spell them correctly to get the right answer! Now find 5 new phobias all beginning with the same letter of the alphabet.

Literacy Activities Writing to advise

The Kidney Urban myth…. One night a student went to a party. She had only been at college for a few days so didn’t know anyone there. Someone at the party gave her a drink, but she soon felt faint and passed out. When she woke up she was in a bath full of ice in a strange hotel. Realising that something was seriously wrong she looked down and saw a huge scar on her side. She began to scream. The noise attracted attention. Eventually an ambulance came. The medics said that this was not the first time that this had happened, and it was likely that she had been drugged and her kidney removed to be sold illegally on the black market.

The Kidney Heist (15)

Advise me… Create a 10-point checklist for teenagers advising them on staying safe at Christmas Decide where this checklist could be displayed or who it could be handed out by – can it be part of a real school health campaign?

Literacy Activities How to make your writing more interesting

This was written by a year 8 student whose teacher said it wasn’t very interesting. Do you agree? Last summer we didn’t go on holiday and we stayed at home which I didn’t mind too much because I have loads of friends at home and we spent a lot of time doing stuff which was pretty interesting to I didn’t mind that we didn’t have a proper holiday but my mum said she wished we had gone away somewhere.

Imagine you are giving the student a yellow sticker What would you say the WWW is in this text? What would you give as an EBI? Choose 3 targets. Demonstrate to the student how he could improve his writing by writing a better version in your books. Write down the 2 main things you have done to improve his writing.

Literacy Activities How do we read? Investigating reading skills

What kind of text is this? How can you tell? What is it about? A ___ ____ __ a ___ ___ ____ by a ____ ____ ____ ___ and ____ _____ that ____ ___ ___ and ___ ___. ___ ___ ___ when ___ ____ from the ___ is ____ as the ___ ___ ___, ____ in ___ of ___ ___ ___ in the ___ ___. They are ____ by a ____ ____ ____ than ___ ___ ____ such as ____. ___ ___, and ____ _____.

What do you think? The text is a fiction text The text is factual The text is personal The text is designed to entertain The text is designed to inform Choose from: DT (definitely true) PT (probably true) PU (probably untrue) DU (definitely untrue )

Why so hard? What kind of words were missing from the text? What kind of words were in the text? How did you make decisions about the kind of text it is?

Were you right? A topical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a large low-pressure centre and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain. Tropical cyclones strengthen when water evaporated fro the ocean is released as the saturated air rises, resulting in condensation of water vapour contained in the moist air. They are fuelled by a different heat mechanism than other cyclonic windstorms such as nor’easters, European windstorms, and polar lows.

Literacy Activities Christmas Quiz