2018/19 Enhanced Learning Room Learning in Literacy November 25, 2017 Gillian Devlin Here is a wee update on what’s being going on in the ELR the past couple of weeks. These children have been working hard on phoincs, spelling and writing tasks. Bingo Story writing ‘Wh’ words swat Spelling revision Spelling games “oy” bingo Beating Miss Devlin at bingo! Reading passages and highlighting our spelling pattern. ‘ee’ crossword Spelling common words with the phonics monkeys. Imaginative writing Spelling activities More imaginative writing ‘Sounds’ soup! Tricky common words Using my common words to make sentences Imaginative writing on the computer using clicker 6. It’s fun to hear your story read back to you! Clicker 6 and predictive text. Working on verbs and tenses. 4 key words instructions Sequencing tasks Reading time – discussing the front cover and talking about character feelings. Reading the blurb and predicting events. Follow up reading tasks. Phonics sorting. Fruit machine style “sounds” game. “It’s an ‘f’ sound and here’s the action!” t,t,t!