Looking for ideas for literacy activities?
These activities each come with:
- Lesson plan templates;
- Evidence-based Literacy-ICT teaching strategies;
- Classroom management strategies;
- Notes about relevant software including what you need to know to boost your expertise in their use;
- Assessment strategies;
- Information on how to provide an inclusive learning environment and;
- How you make the most out of what ICT resources in either a low or high resource setting at your school.
All activities are aligned with the Australian English Curriculum Year 5 and will develop student ICT capability in your classroom alongside literacy development.
See sample activity.
Activity 1: Text Structure and Organisation - Describing emotions and body language.............................. 71
Activity 2: Text structure and organisation - Exposition writing.................................................................. 78
Activity 3: Text structure and organisation - Colouring expository text....................................................... 85
Activity 4: Text structure and organisation - Creating online texts............................................................... 92
Activity 5: Expressing & developing ideas - Explaining sequences of images............................................. 100
Activity 6: Responding to Literature - Relating events to illustrations......................................................... 107
Activity 7: Responding to literature - Photo dramas (View points) - Project............................................... 114
Activity 8: Creating literature - Recounts events in a video game................................................................ 121
Activity 9: Creating literature - Writing a narrative with a moral message................................................... 128
Activity 11: Interpreting, analysing, evaluating - Collecting material from the Internet.............................. 142
Activity 12: Interpreting, analysing, evaluating - Website evaluation........................................................... 145
Activity 13: Creating text - Retelling a story (Narrative).............................................................................. 148
Activity 14: Creating text - Narrative story writing with PowerPoint.......................................................... 155
Activity 15: Creating text - Persuasive writing with PowerPoint................................................................. 162
Activity 16: Creating text - Persuasive paragraphs with PowerPoint............................................................ 169
Using Video Technology and Email to enhance writing skills...................................................................... 178
Vocabulary Pictures....................................................................................................................................... 181
Visual Literacy Narratives............................................................................................................................. 182
Media Arts: Creating news images ............................................................................................................... 183
Science & HASS: Class excursion................................................................................................................. 185
