Small Groups in the Literacy Block.

Your child may well have told you that each day during the literacy block they do 'small groups'.  

You may well still be a little in the dark as to what this really is.  

The children are grouped according to their next step in their learning. 

 Each group is then given an activity which focuses on skill building in the reading and writing process, such as these sound boxes.

 The spelling wheel focuses on letter patterns and how we use them in our spelling.

Ask your child which games they have been playing.

 Blue group is focusing on the missing middle sound in words in this game.

 Ellie is showing her understanding of contractions with this game.

Eli has been reading and answering questions in this 'Yes or No' game.

 Noah and Reece are reading cards, listening carefully to the clues, to play this 'Who am I?' game.

 Amy plays the contraction game.

 Georgia and Jed are playing 'Contractions Bingo'.

Ryan is doing a great job with the 'Spelling Wheel'. 

 Luke and Cale are building their letter sound knowledge with this game of '9 Square'.

 Luke is doing an outstanding job with 'Yes or No'.

 Aida and Jamie are building their bank of known high frequency words in reading and writing with this 'Fifhing Game'.

Jed and Georgia playing 'Who am I?'.

 Cale doing contractions.

 Amy and Freddie playing '9 Square'.

 Morgan, Jamie, Aida and Julian are playing the 'Laces' games.

This helps them to hear the sounds in words.

 Jed and Ella do the 'Who am I?' game.

 Jasmine and Ellie build their skills with '9 Square'.

 Luke is doing a crossword puzzle.

Noah is working on phonemes where he is building his knowledge of letter patterns.

Katie is always here to lend a hand.  Here she is with Green Group doing crossword puzzles.