Primary Activity Box

Are you constantly looking for extra activities for your young students? Are you always short of time? Primary Activity Box will help you out. The photocopiable resource book contains a wide variety of games and activities designed to supplement your coursebook.

* Each of the games and activities is designed to make learning fun
* The material is very easy to use: every activity has clear step-by-step instructions explaining what you need before class, how to set the activity up in the classroom and ideas for optional follow-up tasks.
* It comes with a cassette containing listen-and-do activities, creative dictations as well as a range of songs, rhymes and chants.
* There are extra game templates to help you adapt the activities to your individual learners
* The wide range of activities means that the material is suitable for different learning and teaching styles.

Contents

SECTION 1: INTRODUCTIONS, EVALUATION, INSTRUCTIONS: Happy badges; 1.2 All about me; 1.3 My classroom friend; 1.4 Funometer; 1.5 Five star student; 1.6 Instructions.

SECTION 2: ALPHABET AND NUMBERS: 2.1 Balloons; 2.2 Letter groups; 2.3 Join the alphadots; 2.4 Join the dots; 2.5 ABC crossword; 2.6 Rain rhymes; 2.7 My alphabet book.

SECTION 3: PLAYING WITH WORDS: 3.1 Card games; 3.2 What are they doing?; 3.3 Mix ‘n’ match; 3.4 Colourful cans; 3.5 Body parts; 3.6 Timescales; 3.7 Word scramble; 3.8 Three in a line.

SECTION 4: PRONUNCIATION: 4.1 Legs, legs, legs; 4.2 Rhyming words; 4.3 Fabulous phonicolours; 4.4 Space race.

SECTION 5: COMMUNICATION PRACTICE: 5.1 In your classroom, who ...?;5.2 Identikit; 5.3 They can do it; 5.4 Room for improvement; 5.5 You read, I write; 5.6 Colour co-ordinates.

SECTION 6: PLAYTIME: 6.1 Whose is it?; 6.2 Gramminoes; 6.3 Which sweet?; 6.4 Sentence bingo; 6.5 Cowboy dot-to-dot.

SECTION 7: RHYME TIME: 7.1 Jack and Jill; 7.2 Incey Wincey Spider; 7.3 Lucy Locket; 7.4 My fish tank; 7.5 Diddle, diddle dumpling.

SECTION 8: MAKE AND DO: 8.1 Farmyard fun; 8.2 Chatterboxes; 8.3 Two little dicky birds; 8.4 Days and dates; 8.5 Dress me up.

SECTION 9: PROBLEM SOLVING: 9.1 DIY wordsearch; 9.2 Where are they sitting?; 9.3 Dotty’s puppies; 9.4 Broken words; 9.5 Shaping up. TEMPLATES; ANSWER KEY.