Thursday, 9 October 2014

Repetition with Variety - Letter of the week

A recent literacy training I attended emphasized the need for repetition with variety - so important when teaching students with Special Educational Needs.
Like many classes I have a letter of the week.  I have been trying to cover this in as many ways as possible while making it appropriate for the range of abilities in my class.
Just a few ideas I have used are:

  • I spy - you can do this as a turn taking game - giving a more challenging item to the more able students.
  • What am I thinking of? The students love this one - I give clues - which you can adjust to match each students level.
  • Looking for words in books starting with the letter or have the letter in them.
  • Writing the letter in flour during a cooking session.
  • Writing letters in the air - P.E. 
  • I particularly like the You Tube Letter Clips by Have Fun Teaching.  They are musical - sort of rappy (is that a real word?) - I have intermediate age kids so they love it.  Also covers sounds as well as the names of letters and gets the kids to write in the air.

Here is the link to the Have Fun Teaching letter A song - Check it out to see if it would be useful for your class:

Letter A song


From here you can find all the other letters too.  Enjoy.

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