Topic of ICT (Information, Communications, and Technology) Activity…………………………

Group number: 4Members of group: Sara Arnold and Mandy Harpaz

English Room

Aims of activity: To write a poem based on Roald Dahl’s ‘Dirty Beasts’ – can be used at many different levels.Instruction model: Frontal with one computerICT Tools involved: YouTube, Flipsnack.comOutline of the lesson/activity: Show animated versions of two “Dirty Beasts” from YouTube (but have downloaded versions available in case of Internet problems), discuss structure and content of poems, give ordered instructions as to how to write their poem, they write (or if have access to computer room type use ‘Word’) their poems and then illustrate (either by hand or on the computer). Then all is uploaded to flipsnack.com to make a computerized book. Some poems are submitted to Jelly ‘Kids Read’ Magazine.

• 21st century literacy skills: problem solving, collaboration, independent

learning

• Added value of integrating ICT in the lesson: Addresses

learner diversity, Efficient presentation of information, Illustration of the idea

• Pupil activity after the lesson: To think of ten pairs of rhyming words for

their poem.

• Link to the activity: Microsoft Word

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