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Island Persuasive Writing
Extra stuff:
- This lesson will show you the MATRS 'L.T.' - this stands for Language Toolkit and is a genius move, especially for lower ability pupils. For some reason, it works a lot more effectively than a standard 'checklist' and, gradually, pupils will get into the habit of writing out their own L.T. before any independent writing task.
- AfL - pupils role play pirates who find each other's messages; they decide whether their blackened pirate hearts have been persuaded to make the rescue. Whilst feeding back it is obligatory that they talk like pirates. False beards are also mandatory.Otherwise they get detention. Ideally this should be on a boat filled with men with swords.
- Sticking the messages in real bottles is cool but then what on earth do you do with them?! Better is to give each pupil a print out of a bottle and a bit of blue paper; with a bit of cutting and glue-sticking they can have a bobbing-bottle in the sea in their books with their message rolled up and poking out of the top. The downside of this is that you have to unroll and re-roll 30 little bits of paper when marking them which is a bit fiddly. Smokers of old man tobacco will be at a distinct advantage...
Marty x
This is a fabulous piece of I suspect rather overlooked work. I would like to use these resources and link into your site and work using a new website I am building called http://www.classroom20.co.uk - which is not up and running yet, but the idea is all the different ways teachers can use digital resources hence classroom 2.0, the better... and I would like to use your work as an example of Google Docs for sharing. Let me know what you think... at the moment the site links to my professional development site.
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