Literacy Hour

Literacy Hour.
Year 2 , term 1
We are going to work with the following rhymes.
MONDAY'S CHILD:1
Monday's child is fairly tough
Tuesday's child is tender enough
Wednesday child is good to fry
Thursday's child is best in pie
Friday's child makes good meat roll
Saturday's child is casserole
But the child is born on the Sabbath Day
Is delicious when eaten in any way
Catherine Storr.
MONDAY'S CHILD:2
Monday's child is fair on face
Tuesday's child is full of grace
Wednesday's child is full of woe
Thursday's child has far to go
Friday's Child is loving and giving
Saturday's child works hard for a living
But the child that was born on the Sabbath day,
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.
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OBJETIVES
UNIT: reading poetry Monday's Child
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SPELLING AND VOCABULARY: Read High Frequency words on sight
GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION: Revise Knowledge of Capitalization.
COMPREHENSION AND COMPOSITION: Use story structure to write all alphabetical story.
ORGANIZATION 1 HOUR
INTRODUCTION:
Shared reading of the rhyme Monday's child
WHOLE CLASS SKILL−WORK:
look at the spellings of the days of the week
DIFERENTIATE GROUP ACTIVITIES:
• Use dictionaries to find words , beginning with k, q, x, z
• Guided reading of Catherine Storr's version of Monday's child
• Learn to spell the days of the week
CONCLUSION
• look at the spelling of the days of the week again
2. Ask group 2 to read Catherine Storr's version.
RESOURCES:
Photocopiable pages of Monday's Child 1 and 2, dictionaries and other reference books. Writing materials.
INTRODUCTION AND WHOLE CLASS SKILL WORKS.
Display an enlarged version of Monday's child and read it with the children. You will need to explain some of
the vocabulary and, in particular, you may need to discuss the usage of the following.
−fair of face
• full of grace
• full of woe
• Sabbath
• Bonny and blithe and good and gay
One way to illustrate what the words mean is to ask a child who was born on each day to come to the front
and show them how to pose in a way which relects their supposed attributes.
Help children to learn how to spell the days of the week, show them that all the days end with day so it is only
the first part what they will need to learn. You may need to focus upon Wednesday because it is not
pronounced in quite the same way as it is spelled. Encourage the children to break it up and tell them that if
they of it at Wed−nes−day and say it that way in their heads when they need to spell it they should get it right.
They should, of course, say it in the conventional way for everyday usage.
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DIFFERENTIATED GROUP ACTIVITIES
• Ask them to use dictionaries and reference books to look for words which begin with k, q, x and z. The
children could also be asked to find words which begin with other letters for which there are few words in
the High frequency list, or they could be encouraged to look for words which would help them to write their
own version of Monday's Child in a later lesson.
• Give each child a copy of Catherine Storr's version. Discuss with them the differences between it and the
original version and explain the vocabulary to them.
• Give each child the photocopiable copy of the traditional rhyme, and ask them how to spell the days of the
week. Encourage them to work in pairs. Ask the children to copy the rhyme in their best handwriting
display. Tell them that they should begin new lines in the same places as in the rhyme and show them how
to continue, with an indent, onto the next line when they run out of space.
CONCLUSION.
Look again at the spelling of the days of the week and hold an informal test. Ask group 2 to read the
alternative version of the poem aloud and ask the children which they prefer and why.
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