Literacy/ reading group names - ideas?

[Judyandherdreamofhorses]

I'm lacking inspiration. Need 5 group names - suitable for Y2-4. I'd like them to be reading related. I know I could just pick 5 authors, but I wanted to be more interesting than that! Thanks.

[UniS]

5 fictional cats?
mog, sid, gus, macavity, skimbleshanks,

if twas only 4 I'd be tempted by Hogwarts houses. My 7 yr old would love that.

5 shakepeare characters? why not aim high.
Yorick, Falstaff, Viola, Ariel ,Propero....

5 of something with nowt to do with fiction? where are you? in this county I can think of 6 rivers with only 3 letter names*, or 5 hills... might get some sup to find out where the names are from.

Please be a bit less transparent than my son's teacher who went for shapes, it was bit obvious that the more sides the shape had the higher ability the group was.

*exe, axe, lyd, taw, lyn, sid, yeo if I go up to 4 letters I can use culm, tavy, plym,dart , erne and ken.

[Judyandherdreamofhorses]

Thanks. Great ideas. I like the rivers (same county as you!).

[BrigitBigKnickers]

How about onomatopoeia words? - Bang, Splat, Rumble, Pop, Whizz, Crash, splash etc- they could come up with a list and you could choose from that.

Gem stones?- Ruby, Sapphire, Topaz, Diamond, Emerald.

If you are studying a particular author you could choose character names from the books- e.g. Roald Dahl- Charlie, Matilda, BFG, Twits (perhaps not that one!)

[Judyandherdreamofhorses]

Thanks. I'm thinking that they might be a bit overloaded with group names actually. Classes are named after trees, 'houses' after local landmarks, numeracy and literacy groups too. These are my booster groups. Maybe I need a different idea altogether. I want to be able to go I to class and say 'Can I have...please'. Also want to be able to create a group identity.

[UniS]

If its something they have an exercise book for, are you able to give each group a different colour exercise book?

DS is lucky- his school is big & small enough that classes are just called by the year number, none of this fudging about with Tor/ tree/ animal names for classes. Only for numeracy and literacy groups.

[everythingsfantastic]

My groups are reading related. I have got the Authors, Editors, Illustrators, Publishers and Reporters. They have gone down well and the children like using the vocabulary and understanding more about the different roles.

[Judyandherdreamofhorses]

Thanks for suggestions. I decided to just go for colours, so I can go into class and hold up a coloured flag. Works really well and no clashes with other groups in school.

[JordanTilbrook]

In my class, we had a whole heap of different themes for groups, including: Mythical Creatures (griffins centaurs pegasus phoenix centaurs) Gemstones (topaz saphire emerald opal ruby) Ma?ri Numbers (or any language) (tahi rua toru wha)

Hope these helped!

[JordanTilbrook]

I realized i put centaurs twice! Sorry! The other one was Dragons!

[LuvMyBoyz]

I called mine after fast things to represent the boost the classes gave the pupils: Arrows, Bullets, Jets.