Football Literacy Penalties - Kinaesthetic Whole School Literacy Activity

This is a kinaesthetic literacy white board literacy activity that can be used as a lesson starter, plenary or as a sensory activity. It enforces the pupils’ skills in using different aspects of the English language, asking them to give examples of a range of literacy challenges like adjectives, similes and varied sentence openings. Pupils throw a sponge ball to select their literacy topic and they must then give an example of that topic, possibly linked to the lesson being taught. If the pupil gets it correct, the board then becomes a football goal. Another pupil goes in goals and the pupil throws a penatly shot. It can also be used as an alternative team game.

This can be a whole school activity, promoting literacy across the curriculum. Pupil love to learn with Literacy Penalties, it enagages their interest and it reinforces the skills taught in lessons.

This resource includes full instruction for the game and differentiated slides with different selections of literacy challenges.