Session+3+-+Literacy

__Activity 1: Greetings__ Time: 1’ Materials: None Skills: oral interaction with the group //The teacher begins with the daily routine, when the teacher enters through the door comes this dialogue: T(teacher) P (pupils) // // T: Hello everybody P: Hello ... T: How are you today? P: I'm fine thank you and you? T: I'm fine thanks //
 * //Third session//**

__Activity 2: What day is it today?__ Time: 7’ Material: Stick Skills: Rewiring simple sentences

//Every day performing this routine, the teacher asks: // // Who is the helper of that table? and it comes out, the first thing the child is to review the vocabulary that comes as a big poster, which in this case is about plants, the child reads the words and in case some do not know, ask for help another partner of the same table. Once this task is over, other helper of the second table begin the next task, this has to change the date, and ask another student to recite the whole date. Then comes another child of the table three and asked what season are we in? and the student must answer if this summer, invest, autumn or spring, and another child finally leaves the table four to this question what is the weather like today? // //has to say if rainy, cloudy, sunny ...//

//__Activity 3: Show and tell__// Time: 12’ Materials: Pupils bring it Skills: speaking in front of the whole class //Another routine used by the teacher is this activity, children bring from home different objects to show the rest of the class and describe their characteristics like what kind of object is, what qualities are, for what it is used etc, after that each one gets an extra point. These points serve to increase the level of your team because the class is divided into four groups and each time a student is acting well, they get an extra point for the team. For them it is a motivation and the teacher serves to measure the level of class participation.//

__Activity 4: Reading the story aloud__ Time: 5’ Materials: photocopies of the story Skills: reading and listening

//The teacher asks for one student to star reading one line, next line another student and so on, so everybody has to pay attention.//

__Activity 5: Sequencing__ time :15’ Materials: Photocopies of the story’s pictures Skills: Make a sequence. //The teacher give each pupil several pictures of the story, they have to put them in the correct order. Below each picture they have to write a short sentence describing what is in the picture. Using structures like there is and there are.When they finish they have to put their hands up and wait to be called to the teacher’s table to be checked. Once it is checked and improved they have to stick them in their notebooks. Then they can paint until the other partners finish.//

__Activity 6. Circle__ Time:5’ Materials: crayons and the short story Skills: reading and identifying. Speaking. //The teacher asks them to find in the text some words. They have to circle in red all the animals they find in the story. in some minutes the teacher asks the students to put their hand up to answer her questions: how many animals are there? What animals are there? How many times is the word cow repeated?//

__Activity 7: Dictation__ Time: 10’ Materials: notebooks Skills: Listening and writing //The teacher asks for the helpers to hand out the notebooks. They sit down and listen to the teacher. She says aloud 4 or 5 sentences related with plants and structures like there is and there are, including some word from the first session.// //When they finish they can draw something below related to the dictation.//

__Activity 8: Goodbye__ Time: 3’ Skills: Developing politeness. Materials: none

//If they are leaving the school or starting the break: The teacher counts back from 3 to zero in order to make the children be quiet and with the table tidy and clean. She decides which is the group that is more quiet, clean and tidy and she ask it to catch their coats and go to the corridor to make a row. They say good bye.//