Nilagħbu bi Kliemna

Nilagħbu bi Kliemna is a literacy programme offered for free by the National Literacy Agency to all students attending one of the primary schools in Malta or Gozo. It was introduced to schools in the beginning of 2024 and served as a development on the previous programme Spellitona / Raddiena Kliem.

This programme is composed of six educational language games, one for each year group, where students can enhance their Maltese linguistic expression to express themselves better, such as: ortography, grammar, syntax, phonetics and vocabulary. Each activity, which is a one-time session and roughly takes between 40-45 minutes, is adapted to cater for different needs, such as age and different levels of Maltese knowledge (for example, a distinction is being made between an activity given to native speakers and the one given to students who only have basic knowledge in the subject).

Mill-A saż-Żeta’ – ‘Mill-A saż-Żeta’ is an educational game which targets the Year 1 primary students. The main aim of this activity is to provide a helping hand to all students in enhancing their Maltese vocabulary and familiarising themselves with the alphabet and Maltese phonology. During this activity, the students will be divided into groups where each team needs to (i) identify the name of the main object or creature in that particular picture and (ii) the first letter of that particular word. Each group will be asked to think of at least another word starting with that same letter.

‘Żewwiġhom’ – ‘Żewwiġhom’ is an educational game which targets the Year 2 primary students. The main aim of this activity is to provide a helping hand to all students in enhancing their Maltese vocabulary by learning how to pair up related objects, such as things related to household, school, and tools used for particular trades. During this activity, the students will be divided into groups where each team will be given sets of flashcards consisting of pictures and words. They need to (i) match each word with the corresponding picture and (ii) afterwards they need to form all the flashcards in pairs. the first letter of that particular word.

‘Żomm Għajnejk Miftuħa’ – ‘Żomm Għajnejk Miftuħa’ is an educational game which targets the Year 3 primary students. The main aim of this activity is to provide a helping hand to all students to familiarize themselves with Maltese orthographic rules. During this activity, the students will be divided into groups and they will participate in a quiz, where with each question they will be given a picture, a sentence in the form of a hint, together with a group of jumbled letters through which they will be able to come up with the correct word.

‘Fittixha’ – ‘Fittixha’ is an educational game which targets the Year 4 primary students. The main aim of this activity is to provide a helping hand to all students in enhancing their Maltese linguistic expression, allowing them to familiarise themselves with orthographic and syntactic rules. During this activity, the students will be divided into groups and each team will be given a wordsearch and a set of pictures through which they need to form a list of words, spell them out, and afterwards they need to look them up in the wordsearch.

‘Raddiena Kliem’ – ‘Raddiena Kliem’ is an educational game being offered to Year 5 primary students. The main aim of this activity is to provide a helping hand to all students in enhancing their Maltese linguistic expression, allowing them to familiarise themselves with orthographic rules. During this activity, the students will be divided into groups and each team will be given sets of letters through which they need to form different words in Maltese consisting of at least two letters.

‘Seħer il-Kliem’ – ‘Seħer il-Kliem’ is an educational game being offered to Year 6 primary students. The main aim of the activity is to provide a helping hand to all students in enhancing their Maltese linguistic expression, allowing them to increase vocabulary and familiarise themselves with syntactic rules. During this activity, the students will be divided into groups and each team will be given three words to form a single sentence according to a set of criteria (such as grammar, orthography and syntax).