Page 15 - Literacy Skills

SYLLABIFICATION

• Place your 6 bricks in your lap.
• The teacher says: Listen carefully to the word I will
say. Place a brick on the desk horizontally for every
syllable that you hear. E.g. don / key . There are 2
syllables so place 2 bricks on the desk.
• The teacher can check quickly to see if the children
have 2 bricks.
• Syllabify other words, e.g. to / ge / ther; Sat / ur / day
etc.
• Children could clap two bricks together for each
syllable.

SPOT THAT

BRICK

• Children place the red brick at the bottom of their
desk, in the middle.
• Children place the remaining 5 bricks at the top, in
any order, in a row from L to R.
• Ask the children to keep their eyes on the brick at
the bottom.
• Teacher calls out the names of the other colours,
e.g. yellow - children must try to locate the yellow
brick without looking up.

Q: Can you find the other colours whilst keeping
your eyes on the red brick?

Variations:

• Repeat the exercise, this time with the red brick
in the middle of the desk, and the other colours
down the L and R sides.
• Ask the children to keep their eyes on the red
brick in the middle and locate colours on either
side.
• The children must pick up the brick that the
teacher calls out.

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