English Literacy Discovery (Part 7 out of 8)

Introduction (5 minutes)

• Welcome the participants
• Remind the participants the general objective of the course
• Introduce the session of the day (objective and how long it will be)

Ice-breaking game (10 minutes)

• Explain that you are going to do an ice-breaking game to warm up the participants and to help them to improve their listening and concentration skills during the session.
• Ask everyone to stand up in a scattered way
• Tell them that you are going to make some continuous rhythm. They have to hear the rhythm carefully. If the rhythm:

1. fastens, they have to move fast.
2. slows down, they have to move slow
3. stops, they have to stop moving.

• Remind them to be careful of not pushing each other
• Do this game for 3 to 6 minutes
• Conclude the game by thanking the participants for their participation.

Main activity (70 minutes)

Part 1 – Review (5minutes)

Ask the participants if they found some words with the letter from MARKET that they were attribute. Write them down on the board, explain the meaning of them and the names of the other letters in it. Ask them to say out loud the letters of MARKET (name of the letter and pronunciation of the letter) learned during the previous workshop. Ask them to write them down a couple of times in their notebook, capital and small letters.

Part 2 – My name (55 minutes)

• Discovering the letters composing my name:

This activity is more individual and needs more time than when the others.

• Ask each participant for his or her name, and write it on the board. Ask them which letters they already know in it.
• Then ask them to find the letters they see in their alphabet sheet. When they found all the letters according to their names, tell to the participant one by one what is the name of the letters in his/her name and how to pronounce it. Make them repeat a few times, last times without your help.
• Ask them to point when a letter is repeated in several names. Help them if needed.
• Ask the participants to copy the letters of their names in their notebook. For each letter, show them step by step how to ‘draw’ the letter. Take the time to do it several times, at least each letter should be copied 20 times, more is better.
• Using the cards that match the letters of their name, choose one and ask the participants to say the name of the letter and pronounce it. Ask them to do it several times. You can ask each participant to repeat the name and pronunciation of the letter individually. Choose the letters according to the participants names.

Part 3 – Alphabet Puzzle (5 minutes)

• Ask the Participants to find in the Alphabet Puzzles the Letters of their names (pic 6.1)

Conclusion (10 minutes)

• Thank the participants for their involvement and concentration during the session. Summarize what was learnt during the session: Today we learnt the letters of our names. Ask the participants to recite one by one the letters of their names.

• Ask them for next time to find words in the camp that has the first letter of their name in it.
• Collect feedback from the participants. Ask questions like: Do you feel that you learnt something during the session? Do you think this new knowledge can be useful to you? Were you comfortable during the session?
• Give the date and location of the next session to the participants, make sure everybody will be available. If not, find a more convenient time and place so everybody can be here.