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Drawing the Alphabet

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This is an activity to be done in a classroom but which can be easily adapted to online classes. In a classroom, you can tape papers like these with different letters of the alphabet for fast finishers. When they are done with an activity, let them pick a word from the little brown bag and draw it. If they don’t know the meaning of the word, let them ask a friend or look it up.
The little brown bag can be made with a toilet paper roll. Write around 10 words on slips of paper and place them in the little bag. The letter can be written on a small piece of creative paper and glued on.
To adapt the activity to online classes, you can use Wordwall to make a wheel which students spin. Add letters to the wheel, whichever letter the wheel stops on, students have to draw an object which begins with that letter.


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