Integrating ICT into

Classroom Activities

Example : Writing Activity

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Scenario

Setting Mainstream Classroom, 25 students, 8-9 year olds,

3 students with mild learning difficulties,1 Special Needs Assistant, 2 computers.

Task Writing a story - The Spooky Castle - Individual

stories

Software available - I Can Write 2, Write on for Windows, Clicker 4, Wordbar

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Option 1

The Spooky Castle

– Use program, I Can Write 2, with whole class to introduce “The Spooky Castle” and do sample story with whole class.

– Print off picture prompts and/or word prompts to enable students to write own story

– Three children with mild learning difficulties work with special needs assistant (using printed picture prompts)

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Option 2

The Spooky Castle

– Class discussion / brain storming session on possible story lines

– Divide class into 3 groups (approx. 8 students per group, 1 student with mild learning difficulties in each group)

– Each group of 8 subdivided into 3 smaller groups and work on sections of story (e.g. Group 1-beginning, Group 2-middle, Group 3- end). Each group uses one piece of software to type and illustrate own section and makes it available to own group members.

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Option 3

The Spooky Castle– Children with mild learning difficulties use

Clicker 4 to write story using prepared grids

– Remaining 22 pupils write individual stories using teacher prepared wordbank

– Completed stories are then typed, illustrated and printed using Write on for Windows