Reading and Writing for Young Learners

Creating reading and writing activities for young learners is not that simple. We have to take into account different aspects and sue different techniques to get students attention and interest. When we had to design the lesson plan for these, I had some problems understanding the key aspects to do so. 

READING 

For the reading lesson plan, at first I was a bit confused because the reading part of the book mentioned the used of songs and chants to start working with reading activities. So a took it too literal and worked with a song, but I failed to explain that I was also working with the lyrics. I focused too much on the listening part and left the reading part not developed enough. I tried following what the book said about using songs for reading purposes, but I'm not sure if my approach was entirely correct. I fixed it so that there would be a better focus on the reading aspects but maybe I could have used an activity completely focused on it.

WRITING

As for the writing activity, I went with something more traditional that was also mentioned in the book. Writing some simple sentences following a model using things that are related to them. I used fruits as my content, and I make the students get familiar with using the phrase "I like...." By  doing this I get the students to practice their writing. Then to make something a bit more interesting, I make them do an acrostic with fruits using their own names. That way I can take into account the need for students to talk and do activities that are focused on them, and they can choose what they like from the content. That way, we go back to the characteristics of young learners by saying they are self-centered. With this, the students can practice writing their names and the lexical (fruits) and linguistics (phrase "I like..") contents.