Literacy Hour

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Literacy Hour

• Teaching English through literature

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Literacy hour was introduced countrywide in 1998
in Britain to improve levels of literacy.
Its based on the premise that literacy is taught
for an hour a day, five days a week.
The hour is divided up into four sections
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• First section (15 minutes)
• the objectives of the lesson are made clear
• whole class teaching e.g. modelling reading
  using an enlarged text or modelling writing by
  scribing with the class.

• Second section (15 minutes)
• whole class teaching breaking down the text to
  focus on word or sentence work

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• Third section (about 20 minutes)
• group or individual work reading, writing or
  word and sentence work while the teacher works
  with one or more group on guided text work.

• Final section (about 10 minutes)
• whole class plenary session review the
  learning that has taken place related to the
  learning objectives of the lesson the pupils,
  not the teacher, explain what they have learnt.

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Literacy Hour looks at exploiting texts on three
different levels
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Whole-text level

• stories with a moral

• sequencing

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Sentence level

• language related to specific characters

• spoken language

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Word level

• alliteration

• reading skills

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Objectives for each year have been drawn up on a
termly basis and divided into the three
categories.

• e.g. Year 1 term 2
• Phonological awareness, phonics and spelling
• to secure spelling and reading of initial,
  medial and final letter sounds in simple words

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How would you use these activities? What
adaptations would you make? How does it fit in
with the existing curriculum? What training
would you need to exploit anything you found
useful here?