Literacy+on+Mondays

=**Literacy on Mondays**=

__**Week One**__
Here are the 8 most popular (or rather hated!) common errors we will focus on this year. As will be revealed in staff meeting, we will be starting with “alot”. We are begginning with a competition to get studrnts to design an "alot." __**Week Two**__ Keep pushing the “alot” competition. Flyer attached in case you need more. Due tomorrow. Can be handed in to the Student Centre or direct to me.

Ideas for reinforcing this… N Explain that “lot” is a noun -> like table the indefinite article “a” is a separate word i.e. a lot, a table (thanks Rachel) N Explain that it is no different from “a little” (thanks Val) N Led me to thinking this would be an excellent opportunity to explain the difference between “a lot” and “the lot” – particularly to ESOL students whose first language does not have articles N Put it on a spelling word list (thanks Chloe) N Meantime Gareth has come up with a .poster to cover all the common errors. Please find attached Remember, this is not meant to be a one week wonder, to be effective across the whole school, we all need to keep focussing on this for half the term.