Every single child in my class absolutely LOVES Minecraft and this got me thinking about how I could create a topic to somehow link heavily to Minecraft without it actually being Minecraft themed…thinking caps on! I decided to develop a potion/Minecraft topic which would have a heavy science theme (currently working with a Y4 class so will be…
Category: Literacy
Make your own comic
To support children to develop their script ideas (see my earlier post about using the Sainbury’s Christmas ad to inspire their pre-unit write here) I love to use online comic generators as a teaching resource. My favourite is ‘Make Beliefs Comix’. The children love to get involved and it’s easy to use both on iPad or Windows/Mac….
Using Mog for script writing
Before I teach a unit of work in Literacy, I like the children to complete a pre-unit independent write to see what their knowledge is of the specified genre/unit. As I was about to teach script writing, I wanted to see what they actually knew about the key features so used the Sainsbury’s Christmas advert ‘Mog’s Christmas Calamity’…
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