Name: ________ Date: Match the word with the picture.

eraser

markers

letter

ruler

pencil

pen

Name: ________ Date: Match the word with the picture.

shoes

school

mom

glue

bag

Name: ________ Date: Listen to your teacher. Write the first letter.

1. etter 2. chool 3. en 4. encil 5. raser 6. ag 7. arker 8. om 9. uler 10. lue 11. ome

Name: ________ Date: How many times can you find the hidden word?

1. letter Etterleterlatterlettertelleretelolotterletterletre

2. school zchoolscoolshoolschoolscholschoolssccohl

3. pen panponpeenqendenbenpenbenpenpann

4. pencil pancilbencilqencilpencilpensilpenkilpencill

5. eraser eraseraresererasarerasererazererosereraser

6. ruler rolerrullerulerrularrulorrulereruleriulerlurerlure

7. mom wowmommammomnonmonnomwonnow

8. marker morkerwarkermarkerworkermarkermarkarm

9. bag gabagbogdogqogqagdagpagbagpagba

10. shoe thoechoeshoezhoeshooshoeshaeshueshoe

11. glue qluegluegulegleuglueplueblueqluegluegul

12. goes goesgosgesgeosqoesdoespoesgoesgogog

13. stays taystaysstoystaysataysatysstaysteystaysta

Name: ________ Date:

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Name: ________ Date:

Word search (lower case to uppercase match*)

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Word search (same case)

Name: ________ Date:

H P S T A Y B P D W H S R M WI D H A S I J E X Z I M E V KS B V P T V W N A T X O P B ZV A U E A P H E M O A M I K OI G V P R E I E S P T L A O MX D N U T N R D W C H G O H AC O T T D C S R U L E R G U RW Y P H D I F Y A Y C M J G KZ R Z I Y L E T T E R J M R EZ I R N U B D Z T J S R F K RG P G G H I D M S Y C O B C GL X D S O V D T A S H O E S TU E T B M Y G M Y B O K R H HE T M C E R A S E R O A P N SB C W O L V J N U A L P N I A

SCHOOL LETTER THINGS PENCILERASER PEN RULER GLUEMARKER SHOES BAG HOMEMOM START NEED STAYGO SAY HUG HITO THE

Yes or no?1. Deng is a mom. YES NO

Name: ________ Date: 2. Mom needs markers. YES NO

3. The teacher gets a letter. YES NO

4. Deng reads the letter. YES NO

5. Deng needs a ruler. YES NO

6. The ruler stays at school. YES NO

7. Deng needs a bag YES NO

8. The bag stays at school. YES NO

9. Mom goes to school. YES NO

10. Deng needs many things. YES

NO

Name: ________ Date:

Make the false sentences true.*

Name: ________ Date: Talk to your classmates!

A: Do you have a / an ____________________?B: Yes, I do. OR No, I don’t.

Show your classmates’ answers with or .

Name eraser pen ruler pencil

Name: ________ Date: Who has a pencil? Who has a pen?Let’s make sentences.

Name: ________ Date:

FREE

penpencilletterschooleraserbagmarkermomDeng

rulergluehomegototheatashoes

manythingshughineedstay

Deng Starts School Crossword Puzzle

Across3. _______ reads the letter.5. The bag goes __________.6. Deng _______ glue.7. He ______ a letter.

Down1. Deng _______ home.2. _______ starts school.4. Deng needs ______ things.8. _____ glue stays at school.

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UsePlease note that this is not a lesson plan, simply a collection of activities—some more controlled and some less controlled—that can be used throughout the week as you teach your own lesson around Bow Valley College’s ESL Literacy Reader found here on the ESL Literacy Network: http://www.esl-literacy.com/readers/phase1.html.I always walk students through worksheet instructions before handing them out, so the written instructions at the top are more for you than for my students. I hope most of them are self-explanatory.

When I use these materials, I activate the schema/prior knowledge, exploring the topic first orally. By the time learners have their first printed matter in hand, they will have heard the story a few times, looked at the photos, discussed it and summarized it orally.

I strive to remember to go back and forth between the parts (phonemic awareness, sight word recognition) and the whole (meaning), recycling the same words as many times and in as great a variety of ways as possible throughout the week, weeks or month.

I also go through each worksheet orally before doing it with them in writing. For example, for a True/False test, I would first hold the sheet up so they know it’s coming, and then drill them orally to give them the confidence that they know the answers to the questions. “Deng is a mom. Yes or no?” They all say, “No!” I smile and say, “See? You can do it.”

Another way I support the learners is to pull up the worksheet on the projector / white board so we can do the first few together. I never proceed until all students answer my “Is it okay?” with “Okay!”

Name: ________ Date:

The first time you use a particular type of worksheet with literacy students, you can expect them to have no idea what is going on or what to do with it. That is why I use the same types of activities week after week—so that the entire cognitive load is devoted to the content and not the form of the exercise. Their lives are stressful enough as it is. Class should be fun.

On Friday we always play BINGO and then go to the computer lab after break where it’s always the same two or three websites, the primary one being Spelling City. There they can choose which game to play with the week’s word bank and sentences.

We usually play the flyswatter game either late Thursday or Friday before BINGO. But before we even play the flyswatter game, we pass the laser pointer around the room giving each student a chance to practice recognizing the words we’ve worked on all week. With 24 words from the week’s word bank spread randomly across the board in large font, I say, “Show me doctor… great. Now show me nurse. Good job. Show me temperature,” and so on. I start with the strongest student and end with the weakest, of course. This gives the last student an opportunity to watch as the words are identified eight or nine times before her turn.After that warm-up, they are ready for the next activity

My students all know what to expect now. They know as soon as I pass out the bingo cards on Friday to start copying the words from the word bank at the bottom into the BINGO grid in a random fashion so that no two students have the same pattern.

To see other ways I recycle the same vocabulary throughout the unit, take a look at my blog at kelly.blogspot.ca and click on the Hello, teachers! link to go to that page. There I have a few photos of other materials I create for use with our LEA stories and the readers.

If you have any questions, suggestions, corrections or comments, please email me at Kelly (underscore) Morrissey (at) ymca (dot) ca. Cheers!

Kelly