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.
Further activities
Letters
Using the Smash Scenario as a stimulus, children should write a letter to the local council persuading them to make certain safety improvements to the area of the accident.
As part of the discussion following Smash, children should consider how the area could be made more safe - changes to the speed limit, lighting, crossing facilities, parking facilities, etc.
Use word or sentence level time to plan letters carefully making an appropriate vocabulary list. Aspects of formal writing and use of connectives should also be encouraged.
Create a whole class plan of the letter to be written.
- Who will the letter be addressed to?
- How shall you address this person?
- Who will the letter be from?
(Encourage creativity - use people from the scenario and important members of the community.)
