Beach Theme Family Literacy Night – Reading and Writing Stations

Description

Host a beach-themed family literacy night. This pack includes materials for reading and writing stations, invitations, and activities for a fun school event.

This fun Family Literacy Night Activities pack is full of materials for implementing your own family night for ELA! Invite parents and families to participate in 8 fun beach and ocean themed activities to address reading, writing, speaking, and listening! This pack also includes a flyer to advertise the event, station posters to display on the night, handouts for activity stations plus, tips for putting the materials together – learned from experience!

These beach and ocean themed reading and writing activities are so much fun for families and kids!

⭐ File Formats This resource is a zip file that includes both a printable pdf and an editable pdf which can be edited using Adobe Reader. Please be sure that you have the capability to open these file types before purchasing. Thank you!

⭐ What’s included in this Editable Family Literacy Night Activities Pack?

• Tips/Pointers for putting materials together
• Flyer to notify families of event * editable boxes for your information included
• Pictures of the stations
• Posters for 9 different stations
• One poster for stations to direct traffic* editable version included
• Family Reading Pledge Beach Shapes for bulletin board
• Beach Reading Bookmarks
• and materials for the following nine stations.

Stations included:

• Roll-a-Beachy-Story: Roll a character dice and a problem dice and use those elements to write a story! Two different versions of story paper included for primary/upper elementary.
• Collecting Seashells: Collect seashells with words on them. Sort them into your buckets marked 1, 2, 3, or 4 syllables.
• A Day at the Beach: Listen to a beach story read aloud. Then create a fun organizer where you illustrate and record the five senses description. Use with Hello Ocean/Hola Mar or The Seashore Book.
• Shady Compound Words: Make a compound word game to play at the event and at home.
• Sunny Words: Two versions. In one version, students make a sun out of word families. In another, they make a sun out of prefix words.
• Snack Shack Snacks: Students follow directions to create a fun beachy snack. Tickets included to make this a one-per-student station.
• Sandcastle Words: Make as many words as you can out of the letters “sand castle”.
• A Beach Souvenir: Make a seashell or a beach ball craft to remember your trip to the beach.
• Read on the Beach: Read as a family on beach towels.

*These pages include editable components and are not necessarily completely editable.

⭐ Licensing Terms

This product, once purchased, is licensed to be used by one school. Additional schools must purchase additional licenses. Thank you!

This product, once purchased, is licensed to be used in one school. Additional school must purchase additional licenses.