A group of parents and grandparents meet regularly at a day care centre in the evenings to work on their literacy and to be involved in what happens at the day care. The day care has children from 18 months to 5 years of age, and also has an after school program. The parents and grandparents who attend this literacy class have children and grandchildren in all levels of the day care programs.
These adults are concerned about the amount of bullying that happens to children when they are in school and also on the playground at the day care. They have chosen bullying as the theme for their literacy work over the next few weeks. The class has a mixed level of abilities and cultures. Some people are at Level 1 and some are at Levels 2 and 3. Activities have to be done in such a way that all can participate.
The facilitator of this group did some brainstorming with the learners first, in order to discover what kinds of things they would like to do about bullying. The brainstorming chart is reproduced on the following page. After this chart is the theme unit plan that the facilitator created, based on what the adults said they wanted.