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Assignment Content
Develop a writing activity that aligns with one of the texts used for the Reading Activities assignment in Week 5, and that emphasizes at least one of the six traits of writing.
Include a method for evaluating this writing activity.
Book from Week 5:
Reading Activity for Lower Elementary Classroom
Secret Sisters of the Salty Sea
This is a short story for the lower elementary classroom. It talks about two sisters who take
their first vacation on the beach, about embracing new experiences and working through
conflict (Lynne Rae Perkins, 2019). One of them gets to work with a falcon and then releases it
into the wild (Lynne Rae Perkins, 2019).
Pre-reading Activities
Pre-reading activities may help pupils to prepare for what they are about to read, they may as
well prepare for the kind of grammar, vocabulary, and even language used in a specific text. If
this activity is done in the right way possible, learners may be motivated to read. However, in
the story above the learners’ pre-reading activities include Pictionary, where they may be put
into two groups, and a learner from each group is asked to come to the chalkboard and draw
pictures of the bird and the rest are asked to identify the kind of bird drawn. Learners may as
well be given pictures and asked to guess what the story will be about, and each group is
allowed to present their ideas. They may also come with crayons to class and color the picture
as expected.
Reading Activities
To make learners more excited in reading this story, it’s very important to help them memorize
words, and this is the best starting point since children learn to read differently, and therefore
keeping them occupied in learning is the best option and should be put into practice in lower
elementary classrooms. They can as well associate the words they read with various objects
they see in the pictures drawn in the story to be read. This can be achieved by displaying
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various letters and words around the class to encourage them to ask questions for more
understanding.
Post-reading Activities
Post-reading activity that may be done to learners in this academic level is by giving them
charts to assist in concept visualization to come out with a greater relationship between ideas
from what they have read
