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Key Stage 1: Summer
Literacy Support Activities
A Holiday Game
     

This is a game for 2 or more players.

You have been given the rewards and the punishments. Now you have to decide how to make the game.

Here are some choices:

1. A board game, like draughts, with the players moving forward, going back or missing a turn, depending where they land.

2. A board game with 'plus' points or 'minus' points instead of moving forwards or backwards. You decide how many 'plus' or 'minus' points to award.

3. A snakes and ladders type game.

You could colour in the squares or draw on them and make some counters or players.

Rewards

• Children help load the car.
• Pets well looked after by the neighbour.
• Children keep hotel room tidy.
• Family do things together.
• Proper clothes and sun cream used at the beach.
• You have worked out a price in Euros correctly.

Punishments

• The car will not start.
• Passport lost.
• Aircraft delayed.
• All pocket money spent after 3 days.
• Children misbehave in hotel.
• Ice-cream spilt down new T-shirt.

PLEASE ADD SOME OF YOUR OWN REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS.

Punctuation
     

All the capital letters, commas, apostrophes and full stops have been missed out. Re-write the sentences, putting them in:

yolande said that she loved holidays she liked going to the seaside to such places as bournemouth and brighton her brother simon wasn't so keen he liked to go to the longleat safari park the tower of london and alton towers what do you like to do

Sorting

hand holding sun tan lotionShoesSwimming trunksHand holding ice lolly

 

Sharon, Jacob, Denise and Jack were great friends and during the summer holiday they planned to go to the beach and on several walks.

They wrote down a list of the things they might need for each activity.

Can you put them in the correct lists for the Beach and for the Walks? Some could go in both lists. Put a circle round those.

Walking shoes, towel, flip-flops, sun cream, bucket, spade, ball, swimming trunks, bottled water, sun glasses, packed lunch, compass, map, baseball cap, sun hat.

 
Hand holding bucketHand holding water bottleBase ball capsHead and sunglasses
 

Vowels

Underline the vowels in each of these words. Some have two vowels in them.

FUN

SAND

COST

CAR

PLANE

MONEY

TREAT

BREAK

ENJOY

FAMILY

In each of these words listed below a vowel has been left out.
Write in the missing vowel:

H - LIDAY

ABRO - D

S - N

FR - NCE

FR - END

S - A

P - RK

PR - S - NT

SPA - N

BO - GHT

Sequencing

Put these sentences about a visit to a theme park in the correct order.

1. I saved the water chute till last - my favourite.
2. We had to queue to get in.
3. It as midnight before we went to bed.
4. Getting up the next morning was a real drag - I was so tired.
5. The journey home seemed very long.
6. My first ride was on the swirling chair.
7. We left home at 6.30 in the morning.
8. Dad had bought a family ticket in advance, through the Internet.
9. It was 10 pm when we arrived home.
10. After this I went on the twister three times - what an experience!

Good Holidays and Bad Holidays
 

Write an answer to the following questions:

1. You have won £1,000 to spend on a holiday. How would you use it?

2. You have won a booby prize in a competition. You have to tell your classmates your idea of the worst holiday ever! Your classmates will then vote to decide whether you should go on it or not!

A Holiday Story
 

Read this part finished story and write your own ending:

The alarm went off at 5 a.m.

John, aged 5, yawned and rubbed his eyes. He smiled from ear to ear when he realised what day it was. HOLIDAY!

In the room next door his 4 year old sister Ashran slept on. She didn't hear her alarm. "Wake up!" "You lazy bones!" John shouted in her ear. "Our holiday starts today." She heard that all right! For once she didn't mind her brother pulling the duvet off.

Their parents, Bill and Denise, had been up already for 2 hours, finishing the packing and making sure they had their tickets for the flight, passport and money. Bill put them in a special wallet on a ledge by the front door.

Ashran and her brother chattered excitedly all the way to the airport. This was their first flight and their first holiday overseas. How happy and thrilled they looked.

Half an hour later though their faces told a different story.

"Tickets please," said the lady behind the reception desk.

Bill took out his wallet. The tickets were there all right, so was the money. But no passports!

"What have I done?" he cried. "No passports means no holiday."

John and Ashran burst into tears......

....WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?

Answers
 
Punctuation:

Yolande said that she loved holidays. She liked going to the seaside to such places as Bournemouth and Brighton. Her brother, Simon, wasn't so keen. He liked to go to Longleat Safari Park, the Tower of London and Alton Towers. What do you like to do?

 
Sequencing:

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2
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9
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