Literacy Challenges
Please try to complete one challenge per day if possible or a couple per week. If activities are too challenging for your child then feel free to simplify them or complete them over two days instead of one.
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Activity 1.
Read ‘Superworm’ by Julia Donaldson. Make a list of all the rhyming words. Can you make up your own sentence or sentences about Superworm or another character in the book? If you don't have this story at home you can watch it here...
Activity 2
Watch the story (link above) with the sound muted. Can you retell the story in your own words? Can you draw a picture of Superworm or design a superhero costume for Superworm and label it?
Activity 3
Watch BBC Bitesize “What are Minibeasts?” learning clip to discover what a minibeast is.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/z9fkwmn
Use your daily exercise/walk to the park/play in your garden to go on a minibeast hunt! What can you find under rocks, in trees, in the soil, on the ground etc. Use the tally sheet (see attached examples) to record what you find. Use the identification sheet to find out as many names of minibeasts as you can.
Activity 5 (this could be completed over a number of days)
Watch the minibeast desciptions powerpoint (scroll down for the link). Don't forget to press start slide show so you can interact with each slide.
Start a minibeast fact book or make a poster. You could use the paper folding activity from weeks 1 and 2 to make a little book (A3 will give you bigger pages). You could draw a picture or take a photo and add a caption to tell us something about it - for example… This is a spider. It has 8 legs. Use your phonics to spell out each word - NB parents: words may not be spelt correctly. It is important to encourage your child’s independence i.e. butterfly may be written phonetically as b u t r f l i
Activity 6
Watch this episode from Cbeebies.
Complete the minibeast classification activity (scroll down for this). As an extra challenge, instead of cutting and sticking my pictures, can you design a chart of your own?
Activity 7
Go through the alphabet and see if you can think of a minibeasts for each letter. Can you write this as a list?
Activity 8
Download the minibeasts sentences. Choose a few and practise your super reading. Can you write your own sentences? Maybe you have a book at home about a minibeast that you could read with an adult. Here are a few examples
Activity 9
Read the story of The Very Cautious Caterpillar (click the link). Discuss the main characters and events in the story. Use the talk cards to support story comprehension and discussion.
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-526203-the-cautious-caterpillar-ebook
Activity 10
Be a bug for just one day. What would you do, where would you go?
Print off a bug themed writing template, use your own paper or your busy book.
Literacy generic activities
