Visit 2 Activity 5
From film to narrative
Context
09:30 – 10:00
The beginning of the lesson at the start of the day. All children are sitting in pairs, at tables, in rows, facing the teacher and IWB. While this is a mixed year 5/6 classroom, for this lesson, only Year 6 is present. All children have a Chromebook closed on their desk and paper and pencils in holders shared between children.
Key activities
- Children check their plans to ensure enough detail is included to write their stories
- Children identify strategies to write the build-up of their narratives
- Children write their narratives from a character’s point of view
- Learning to write a narrative climax
- Children continue to write their stories – writing the build-up and climax, creating tension and suspense.
- Writing a narrative from a character’s point of view
- Interactive White Board
- Chromebooks
- Google Drive
- Padlet
- Film resource
- ScribEasy
- Collaborative learning
- Paired discussion
- Guided watching of film
- Teacher modelling of narrative writing in plenary
- Learning about conveying mood through text
- Multimodal comprehension/ visual literacy using film
- Writing a build-up and climax of a story
- Learning about creating suspense and tension in narratives
- Text-centred discussion
- Focused watching (pausing/ replaying/ rewatching) as part of the meaning-making process
- Digital writing/ typing using appropriate grammar and spelling
- Do the video and collaborative watching/ discussion promote sustained engagement
- Does the video help children to engage with the narrative genre in particular
- Does the video create excitement for writing in this genre?
- Does ScribEasy help support and sustain the writing process for children with SEND?
Lesson Commentary
Introduction
- IWB provides a shared point of focus
- Chromebooks allow individual and paired focus
- Chromebooks allow sharing of resources (Padlet screens)
- Chromebooks allow watching and re-watching of film
- Chromebooks as a shared repository of ideas
- ScribEasy helps children with SEND to fully participate in a writing activity by scaffolding and prompting the writing process
- ScribEasy helps children with SEND to take role of expert and to develop writing identities
- Children may become expert technology users and that expertise can be used to teach one-another
- New technological tools may be unfamiliar at first, and teachers learn alongside the children
- The role of peer talk remains important, and contributes to engagement
- Digital resources can install a sense of fun and excitement, with associated noise and movement
- Children need to be allowed enough time to craft their narratives at their own pace