Suggested Work for 22nd - 26th June
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There are spellings and other activities on your class teachers' page.
“You learn to read by reading – so read every day.”
All children can also choose other books they would like to read on oxfordowl. It is important to enjoy reading. Choose books that are easy to read and books that interest you.
All children should do one or two of the activities based on the story in the corresponding workbook.
You can access The Green Genie, Two Little Frogs, Finn’s Dream and the activity books on www.folensonline.ie
You can access the other stories on www.oxfordowl.co.uk
The instructions on how to access these websites are on your class teacher’s pages.
Before you start reading, see if you can figure out the new words using some of the strategies we have learned in class:
Your teacher has put up lots of ideas on what to do before, during and after reading a story. Use some of these ideas.
The following resources are also extremely beneficial as well as books you may have at home. The most important thing is that your child continues to read regularly.
It would be a good idea to practise writing as often as possible.
All children should do one or two of the activities based on the story in the corresponding workbook.
You can access The Green Genie, Two Little Frogs, Finn’s Dream and the activity books on www.folensonline.ie
You can access the other stories on www.oxfordowl.co.uk
The instructions on how to access these websites are on your class teacher’s pages.
Before you start reading, see if you can figure out the new words using some of the strategies we have learned in class:
- Use phonics to sound out the word
- y at the end of a word sounds like i or e.
- 2 vowels out walking – the first one does the talking
- Magic e
- Look at the common endings
Your teacher has put up lots of ideas on what to do before, during and after reading a story. Use some of these ideas.
The following resources are also extremely beneficial as well as books you may have at home. The most important thing is that your child continues to read regularly.
- David Walliams reading an audio story online every day at 11 a.m. at www.worldofdavidwalliams.com
- www.storylineonline.net
- Story Nory - A huge range of free audio stories for children www.storynory.com
It would be a good idea to practise writing as often as possible.
- Write a few sentences each day.
- Remember to put a capital letter at the start of a sentence and a full stop at the end of a sentence.
- Use capital letters for the names of people and places and for the days and months.
- Make sure you do good handwriting – put your writing sitting on the line, leave a finger space, use tall and small letters as appropriate and remember some letters go down under the line.