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 four
For the next literacy session, use a different slant and give out headlines from different people.
Children should plan individually or in pairs and complete the article.
Use plenary time to share articles and display work as appropriate.
Recounts of events (writing composition - including some connectives work)
Using all the accounts of the witnesses, children can compile a full and comprehensive written report for the Police Chief Inspector. Use planning time to discuss various areas of the report. Ask children to contribute to the discussion and keep notes for their own planning.
Sentence level work time can be used to discuss use of connectives. Create a workable list and, if possible, create a group plan of the forthcoming report including appropriate connectives.
Introduction - what information is needed? How much will the Chief Inspector know? Include where, when, who, why, etc.?
Sequence - in what order will you report events - as you found them out or as they happened? Which will make most sense to the Inspector?
Relevance of witness statements - will you quote any of the people who gave their eyewitness accounts? Can you refer to any? Are there some people whom you don't need to tell your Chief Inspector about? Remember, only include relevant facts, but support your work with evidence (quotations).
Use of language - remember who you are writing for! How will you address the Chief Inspector? Will you be using slang, or formal or informal writing?
Conclusion - how will your report end? What did you find out? Is there any more work, you, as an accident investigation officer, would like to carry out? Remember - the Chief Inspector likes bright young things - you might get a promotion!
