Literacy Night

Tori Mashour, Maddy Hoeft, Makayla

Puff, and Jailen Bernier
Why literacy night?

● Parent involvement in children’s literacy has been proven to result in positive

results
● Many parents don’t know how to do literacy based activities with their
children
○ Literacy time with children is often viewed as reading books only
○ We introduced literacy based games
● Shows students fun ways to learn literacy concepts without having to sit
down and practice from a book all the time
Godfrey-Lee Early Childhood Center
● 78% of students are Hispanic

● 90% of students are minority race

● 92% of students receive free or reduced lunch

2nd grade - Synonyms and Antonyms
Synonym... synonym... ANTONYM!

Our activity:

● Duck, Duck, Goose with a twist

● Before student starts duck, duck, goosing they picked a word and picked
either synonym or antonym (ex. A synonym of big)
● The “goosed” student had to think of a word that matched the “ducked”
student (ex. Huge or gigantic)
● Process continues
Some “duck, duck
goose” in action!
“Hmm...What
word is an
antonym for
small?”
Miss Maddy
running from her
goose!
Deciding on whether
to do a synonym or
an antonym...
Run!
Run!
Run!
Our take home
superhero synonym
and antonym
activity.
Reflection

● Activity went well!

● Assist younger students, but older students caught on
● Didn’t use synonym or antonym, rather same meaning or different meaning
● We ran around a LOT
○ Valuable for students to see us engaged and thinking of words