Literacy Activities
The facilitators collaboratively discuss the strategies to be done in the classroom by adhering to the language strands (listening, speaking, reading and writing). The students use research, thinking and communication skills to inquire and express greater depth and breadth of knowledge and concepts when they immerse a genre study on reading and writing fiction into the unit of inquiry.
In EYP, the students understand phonics, through play way method, during circle time they happily sing rhymes and action songs which build their vocabulary. Chatting away in funny voices as they flick through picture books, enjoying interactive eBooks together, listening to stories being told via video or audio and singing nursery rhymes can all spark communication and literacy learning. Essentially it is these ideas and questions the activities promote that create the foundation for developing reading and writing skills.
In PYP, literacy is integrated with the central ideas linking the conceptual understanding of the genres and the writing process (information, persuasive, explanation, report, comprehension, letter writing and composition) reading materials and provocations, rubrics and assessments
They acquire knowledge through exploring nonfiction books and resources; (Project X , Nelson etc)in the library .They use hands-on manipulates like flashcards, pictures, puzzles etc, where they can discover a range of language arts such as exploring the basic elements of a story, determining the main purpose of stories, retelling stories with details, sequencing events from stories or research, drawing inferences, providing detailed explanations, comparing and contrasting points of view or characters, and arranging information from multiple texts, including informational texts. These challenging concepts become more concrete when students have the ability to create examples of them using their hands.
The students reflect on the field trips/guest lectures which happen every unit which gives them in-depth understanding in developing their communication skills.
