Assessment for Learning Resource Bank

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

 

Learning and Teaching Activity – Fun with Riddles

Learning Targets for Key Stage 1:

KSb - To interpret and use simple given information through processes or activities such as labelling, matching, sequencing, describing, classifying; and to follow simple instructions

Learning objectives:

Text Types

Vocabulary

Language Items and Communicative Functions

Language Skills

Attitudes

Generic Skills

-          riddles

-          action verbs, e.g. read, use, keep, take 

-          use the simple present tense to express simple truths

 

 

Reading

-          develop sensitivity towards language use in the process of communication

 

-          communication skills

 

Related Basic Competencies:

L2-R-5-P3BC:
 Using a small range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of short and simple texts with the help of cues

 

 

Activity

Description

Duration

(mins.)

For students’ self-access

Part 1

An interactive activity:

Learners compare what they are reading to what they already know to solve the riddles.

15

Part 2

An interactive activity:

Learners use contextual clues to solve the riddles.

15