Integrated Reading and Writing Activity


Subject : English
Topic : SUPERSTITIONS Rhyme
Grade : 4th
Targeted Standards : Reading, Writing and creative Expression.



     First of all I would like to thank to the author of the book Teaching Young Learners to Think to gave this great activity. I adopted that activity (Can you Read This) and prepared a new worksheet of my own to this activity. A rhyme about superstitions in grade IV.

You can walk under ladders
What's wrong in that?
You can see any number of jet black cats 
No problem in that.
You can break a million mirrors
And not shed a tear
It's all just stuff and nonsense
Simply groundless fears."

To teach this rhyme first of all I showed a video of superstitions around the world. Later I interacted with my children by asking few questions, What are the superstitions?, What are the reasons to believe?..etc. Once I gave the explanation and reasons of the superstitions, I explained the rhyme while doing the choreography. 

(Choreography Video of the Rhyme by my children)


Later I gave the worksheet to read the rhyme. (You can see the worksheet below, it has some gaps and pictures.) First of all I asked my children to identify the pictures in the worksheet. Later I paired my children to think about the gaps. After few minutes I asked them to read the rhyme by guessing the words which were not given. I helped my children by doing actions when they felt difficult to recognize any word and while a child reading the lines I asked to the other children to do the action. And while they reading the lines I asked my children to say the spelling of the difficulty words and made drill. Finally I asked my children to fill the gaps individually and write the vocabulary denoting the pictures in the worksheet. They didn't face any difficulty to read and write the rhyme. They done in a joyful way and turned as a very interesting activity to them. You can see the choreography and reading skills of my children in the above video.




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