Actis Scenarios

Literacy activities

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Use the Smash script as a stimulus for the text level work as part of your literacy session. Link your current learning objective with an activity below.

Journalistic writing (writing composition): Four literacy sessions

Also includes work on active and passive verbs, opportunities for work on active and passive voice, alliteration and punctuation usage.

Session one Session two Session three Session four Further activity: Instructions Further Activity: Rules Further Activity: Letters

Session three

During the next literacy session choose a headline that blames the boy on the bicycle.

As a class, plan how the article might look. Address the following points:

How people's names and ages are used.

How to deal with speech or direct quotations from the script text.

How long sentences and paragraphs should be.

Whose accounts to include and whose not to include, and more importantly which bits of the accounts to highlight and which bits to ignore.

What adjectives to use to describe the boy, the driver of the Suburu, etc.

i.e. Careless cycling led to Accident

Mr Paul Cummings reported, 'I noticed a lad on a bicycle following me. He was driving very close behind.'

Without wearing proper safety clothing and at a speed which did not slow down before the accident, the cyclist managed to collide with a Suburu travelling along the road. The driver of this Suburu, Mr Armitage, was distressed when he was interviewed, after driving home from visiting his wife in hospital.

Give children the appropriate writing time to write their articles. (No more than 30 minutes.)