Primary Literacy
See how the Pupil Activity Packs can support/enhance the Primary Literacy Curriculum.
Spellings The Scratch Quiz Pack asks pupils to program a spelling test. Program a Microbit to display weekly spellings using the Microbit Activity Pack. |
Re-tell stories The Scratch Jr Pack ask pupils to re-tell a popular story. Pupils could also re-tell a story as an audio ebook using the Ebook Creation Pack. |
Poetry Use the Ebook Creation Pack to create illustrated audio poetry. The Document Creation Activity Pack has a poetry imagery element. |
Persuasive Writing Use the Game Creation Pack to build a game then App Store listing template with persuasive writing in the description . |
Comprehension The forth activity in the Internet Research Pack can help reading/comprehension skills by asking pupils to solve clues. |
Direct Speech The Comic Creation, Scratch Jr and Scratch Basics all have elements of direct speech. This pack could also be used to write conversations in other languages. |
Storyboard/Plot The Comic Creation Pack can help/inspire to create a storyboard using a range of characters, settings and captions. |
Sentences Pupils can use the Scratch Sentences activity to write a program to randomly generate a sentence using nouns, adjectives etc. For younger pupils, they can build sentences using word banks highlighted in the Key Stage 1 Text and Images pack. |
Interactive Stories The Ebook Creation Pack demonstrates to pupils how to make hyperlinks to other pages. The could be used to make interactive story ebooks where the reader makes decisions on the plot. You will see an example of this in our iPad Literacy lesson idea section. |
Settings Pupils can use the activity packs to build settings to inspire descriptive writing. These include the Comic Creation and Scratch Jr where pupils can choose backgrounds or Kodu and Minecraft where pupils can create 3D environments. |
