FOOD
Squash for Thanksgiving
October 2016 my literacy class voted to learn about food. Because the Thanksgiving holiday was the following week, our first module involved writing a Language Experience Approach book based on our having cooked and eaten a squash to celebrate Thanksgiving. Here are the materials and resources for you to edit and use if you decide to create a similar module:
Squash LEA book (right click a picture and choose CHANGE PICTURE to insert your own)
Squash Activity Pack
Squash Word Shapes Worksheet
October 2016 my literacy class voted to learn about food. Because the Thanksgiving holiday was the following week, our first module involved writing a Language Experience Approach book based on our having cooked and eaten a squash to celebrate Thanksgiving. Here are the materials and resources for you to edit and use if you decide to create a similar module:
Squash LEA book (right click a picture and choose CHANGE PICTURE to insert your own)
Squash Activity Pack
Squash Word Shapes Worksheet
RUBRICS
PBLA implementation is proving to be stressful for many teachers. I hope these free rubrics make your life easier.
I project the Language Experience Approach reader with blank lines (you must have the free KG Primary Penmanship Lined font installed) onto the board. I elicit the language from the learners and type what they tell me, helping them with grammar a bit. They copy the sentences into the books I have printed for them. Their version has only blank penmanship lines.
This is the SELF-ASSESSMENT rubric they used to check their printing of sentences.
I used this rubric for TWO reading activities we did the same afternoon. One was a gap-fill or rational cloze aimed at the Phase 1 Initial learners; the second was a Yes No test geared more toward the Phase 1 adequate learners. You see? I am cutting corners to save my sanity. Both are included in the Squash Activity Pack above.
I project the Language Experience Approach reader with blank lines (you must have the free KG Primary Penmanship Lined font installed) onto the board. I elicit the language from the learners and type what they tell me, helping them with grammar a bit. They copy the sentences into the books I have printed for them. Their version has only blank penmanship lines.
This is the SELF-ASSESSMENT rubric they used to check their printing of sentences.
I used this rubric for TWO reading activities we did the same afternoon. One was a gap-fill or rational cloze aimed at the Phase 1 Initial learners; the second was a Yes No test geared more toward the Phase 1 adequate learners. You see? I am cutting corners to save my sanity. Both are included in the Squash Activity Pack above.
Lien Buys Food
An excellent resource for Phase I Initial learners is the ESL Literacy Network's reader Lien Buys Food.
Here is the Lien Buys Food Activity Pack I created to complement it. You can edit the names on the Yes / No quiz and on the BINGO game. I'm sure your learners don't want to read about me and my students.
This is a Word Shapes worksheet.
Here is a Word Search puzzle.
An excellent resource for Phase I Initial learners is the ESL Literacy Network's reader Lien Buys Food.
Here is the Lien Buys Food Activity Pack I created to complement it. You can edit the names on the Yes / No quiz and on the BINGO game. I'm sure your learners don't want to read about me and my students.
This is a Word Shapes worksheet.
Here is a Word Search puzzle.
The Shopping List
These materials are meant to supplement the activities provided in the Talk of the Block Short Vowel Series of books, SHOPPING volume, page 29 - "The Shopping List." The worksheets were created and are being shared with permission from New Reader's Press.
Pam's List - Activities
Pam's List - Printing Practice
These materials are meant to supplement the activities provided in the Talk of the Block Short Vowel Series of books, SHOPPING volume, page 29 - "The Shopping List." The worksheets were created and are being shared with permission from New Reader's Press.
Pam's List - Activities
Pam's List - Printing Practice
Food from Home
This is another excellent Reader from Bow Valley College.
I have created...
Food from Home Activity Pack
Food from Home Word Search
Food from Home word shapes worksheet
This is another excellent Reader from Bow Valley College.
I have created...
Food from Home Activity Pack
Food from Home Word Search
Food from Home word shapes worksheet
