Literacy+Center



For this literacy center activity, the students were working on the letter 'N' that week. I decided to create a cut and paste matching activity with common words that started with the letter 'N', such as needle, nest and nickel. The students were then instructed to fill in the missing 'n' letter in front of each word. This gave them extra practice with writing the lower case letter 'n'. After they filled the letter in, each student cut the matching words and glued it above each picture. The words were written under each picture to help some of the students match.

Some of the students had a lot of difficulty with matching the words together to cut and paste. These students happened to be ones that have difficulty with reading and writing. On the other hand, some of the students were able to match the words right away, as well as read the word out loud. For these students, I was able to differentiate by instructing them to write a sentence using one of the words.