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1. Project Overview Literacy, Assessment for and of Learning and ICT Learning Areas Levels Age 9 and 10 Objectives To improve attitude and engagement towards writing. To improve understanding of writing for an audience and purpose. To use thinking skills to support examination of a text Description The children have been studying “Orange’s In No Man’s Land’ by Elizabeth Laird, using the Literacy Evolve Scheme. I noted a particular interest in the book by the children and wanted to use this interest and enthusiasm and run with it. At the same time we were working on writing for a purpose and audience. I thought starting a BLOG with the children would be the ideal way of using that enthusiasm and training children to write for an audience. We used tagxedo, PP, and NGfl resources to support all that we did. It’s working well and the children have taken Blogging to their hearts and are writing/creating/evidencing more work than ever Applications PrimaryBlogger, Tagxedo (Powered by Microsoft Silverlight) Pyramid Ranking (Derived from NGfL ’10 things’ PowerPoint) and NGfl Living Graph and NGfL axis graph Tags <Engagement, Audience, Purpose, Assessment for Learning> BlogNewbies

2. The BlogA video on the Blog The Kids viewThe children’s PPs, Living Graph and Axis graph • Project Resources and Materials Insert links to NGfL Cymru resources you used here See attached slides - please note the resource was made in an earlier version of PP with Macros in use, therefore some functionality may be lost. Project Background and Planning

3. A GUIDE The following activity is for you and your class. The idea is that children work in groups and discuss what they think they would need to take with them to the moon. (As if they were astronauts) They need to decide on 10 items and be able to say why they have chosen them. They need to be able to put them in order of importance. Once they have had the discussion time they then can complete the pyramid ranking activity on the next slide and discuss their decisions as a class

4. 10 THINGS THINK OF 10 THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO DO TO WRITE AN EFFECTIVE CHAPTER SUMMARY TYPE THEM ON THE LABELS, CLICK SLIDESHOW, THEN PUT THEM IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE ABOVE Know the chapter Make a timeline Use description Don’t copy out Describe feelings Miss out parts Use punctuation Read over work Organise Intro and finish line

5. 10 THINGS THINK OF 10 THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO DO TO WRITE AN EFFECTIVE CHAPTER SUMMARY Know the chapter Make a timeline Don’t copy out Miss out parts Organise Intro and finish line Use description Describe feelings Use punctuation Read over work TYPE THEM ON THE LABELS, CLICK SLIDESHOW, THEN PUT THEM IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE ABOVE