Spotlight on Literacy #7 - Collecting Family Recipes

Collect a Family Recipe

Uncle Steve makes wonderful chocolate chip cookies, and Aunt Suzi makes delicious pumpkin bars. Often grandmothers or grandfathers have favorite dishes that they bring for family potlucks or serve for holiday meals.   For the next couple of days make a plan to find recipes from your family.  Gather just one or create a cookbook for the family.  Perhaps even make copies of the cookbook and plan to gift other members of the family.

Think about a favorite food that you like that someone has made for you.  Write a letter or send a message to the person or you might want to phone and ask for the recipe.  Write the recipe down and collect information about the recipe.  Use these templates if they are helpful.

Use the recipe and ask an adult to help you make the recipe and share the results.

Teachers/parents:  If you wish more details regarding this activity lesson, you may wish to visit: Family Recipes: Publishing a Family Recipe Book. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/familyrecipebook

~•~•~ 

For more learning activities visit http://bit.ly/mclinks101

Share this page by using this link: http://bit.ly/readingtrove-7

Cite this page as:

McElmeel, Sharron (2020, April 9). Spotlight on Literacy #7 - Collecting Family Recipes.  Reading Trove.  Retrieved from http://bit.ly/readingtrove-7

Spotlight on Literacy #6 - Literary Lunch Menu

Write a Literary Lunch Menu

Think of  favorite book titles - any titles that you love.  Think about what the main character or characters might like to eat or think about a food that is in the book.   For example, here are some ideas I had:

 Bread baked by The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone

Peanut Butter & Jelly from Peanut Butter and Jelly by Nadine Bernard Wescott

Applesauce from Applesauce Day by Lisa J. Amstutz and Talitha Shipman

Gingerbread cookies from The Gingerbread Man by Eric Kimmel

Milk from It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw

~•~•~ 

This is my menu for lunch.

Now make up your lunch menu and see if you can make your menu for your lunch today or tomorrow.

Ask your friends or brothers and sisters to help you think of foods in books that you all might like to have for lunch.  Piggie in Mo Willems' Elephant and Piggie books likes to eat slop.  I think I will skip that menu item but I'm sure you will be able to think of more appetizing foods.

Make a list of the books and write your lunch menu.  Illustrate the menu and if you want share your menu in the comments below.

You might even want to find a food that you need to find or make a recipe.  For example Chris Raschka wrote a book titled Cowy Cow.  It is a simple book but Cow has ideas - and one of them is that if one chews grass long enough it might taste like a gluten free oatmeal raisin cookie.  Here is a recipe for a gluten free oatmeal raisin cookie.

 Make a menu, find a recipe, connect food and books.  Share the connections you make.

For more learning activities visit http://bit.ly/mclinks101

Share this page by using this link: http://bit.ly/readingtrove-6

Cite this page as:

McElmeel, Sharron (2020, April 9). Spotlight on Literacy #6 - Literary Lunch Menu.  Reading Trove.  Retrieved from http://bit.ly/readingtrove-6

Spotlight on Literacy #5 - Making a Bookmark

Making a personalized bookmark

Literacy involves reading and following directions:

Cut a piece of oak tag (heavier paper) about 2 and 1/2 inches wide by 9 to 12 inches long.  One one side write a poem or inscription for the one you are going to give the bookmark.

Then place some leaves, flowers, colored cellophane, tissue, or even crayon shavings on top of the cardboard.  Tack leaves, flowers etc. in place with a dab of glue (glue stick works well).

Then place the collage between two pieces of contact paper, laminate, or iron wax paper.  Wide clear heavy cellophane tape works well too.  Cover the back and the front and press.

Punch a hole and add a ribbon, some yarn, or a tassel.

For more learning activities visit http://bit.ly/mclinks101

Share this page by using this link: http://bit.ly/readingtrove-5

Cite this page as:

McElmeel, Sharron (2020, April 9). Spotlight on Literacy #4 - Going on a Scavenger Hunt.  Reading Trove.  Retrieved from http://bit.ly/readingtrove-5

Spotlight on Literacy #4 - Going on a Scavenger Hunt

Literacy involves reading and observing; and recording those observations  -- 

Here is a scavenger hunt to do in your own house.

Download a printable pdf @ https://bit.ly/scavengerhunt101
~~~

Other scavenger activities:

1. Make a list of your own for a car scavenger hunt.
2. Send a message to your neighborhood friends and ask them to put a favorite stuffed animal in their window -- and then go on a neighborhood walk and record the different animals that you find.

For more learning activities visit http://bit.ly/mclinks101

Share this page by using this link: http://bit.ly/readingtrove-1

Cite this page as:

McElmeel, Sharron (2020, April 9). Spotlight on Literacy #4 - Going on a Scavenger Hunt.  Reading Trove.  Retrieved from http://bit.ly/readingtrove-4

Spotlight on Literacy #3 - Be a Word Collector

Having a great vocabulary is the first step toward being a great reader and person of literacy.  Two books that inspire the collection of words and the building of vocabulary include these two titles:

Peter H. Reynolds's The Word Collector  (Orchard/Scholastic, 2018)  and Roni Schotter's The Boy Who Loved Words (Schwartz & Wade, 2006).

Hear this book read aloud at Storytime Now.
https://bit.ly/wordcollector2

Katherine Detrick reads aloud this book at https://bit.ly/lovedwords



You too can be a word collector.  Find 26 pieces of notebook paper and make a page for each letter of the alphabet.  (See example below).  Staple the pages together or tie them together with a piece of ribbon or string.  Or if you have a folder with paper fasteners in it you can put the pages (in order) in the folder.

Then each day spend five to 10 minutes finding words that would go on each page.  Write neatly.  After a week or two (or more) you will have your own collection of words.  

You can draw or paste pictures on the pages if you wish.

Note for those helping young scholars.  This activity can be a simple word collection activity - spelling and gathering words that begin with the beginning letter.  Older learners can create a more specialized book of words - animal words, words that have three syllables, words I'd like to use in a poem, funny words, or author names, or names.  The choice can be wide open depending on the learner's interest.
Or instead of alphabetical words create a "kindness" page - what are words you can use to show kindness to someone else; "friendship" page, and so forth.

~~~

For more learning activities visit http://bit.ly/mclinks101

Share this page by using this link: http://bit.ly/readingtrove-1

Cite this page as:

McElmeel, Sharron (2020, April 8). Spotlight on Literacy #3 - Be a Word Collector.  Reading Trove.  Retrieved from http://bit.ly/readingtrove-3

Spotlight on Literacy #2 - Our Family Together

Literacy involves reading and following directions -- 

Print these two pages, gather your materials, read and follow the directions, and have fun.

Spotlight on Literacy #1 - Draw and Learn

Today visit author/illustrator - Jarrett J. Krosoczka and join him as he draws and shares "how to's" with readers (and artists) of all ages.

Live and archived - visit the gateway site to his videos at
Draw Everyday with JJK - Live, every weekday have paper, pencil, perhaps a marker available. Sessions will be archived. Submit YOUR artwork here so that Jarrett might see (and possibly share) it. http://www.studiojjk.com/draweverydaywithjjk.html

~~~

For more learning activities visit http://bit.ly/mclinks101

Share this page by using this link: http://bit.ly/readingtrove-1

Cite this page as:

McElmeel, Sharron (2020, April 5). Spotlight on Literacy #1 - Draw and Learn.  Reading Trove.  Retrieved from http://bit.ly/readingtrove-1