On this page are some examples of ICT based activities and tasks that will support children's learning during the lower Key Stage Two in writing. The examples given are offered as prompts for you to draw from and embed in your planning for literacy. In order to use these prompts successfully you will need to apply effective 'assessment for learning' to ensure the tasks you plan support the children's stage of development and learning.

• Text mark
  Description:
  Scan or paste text extracts into interactive whiteboard documents. Use pen and highlighter tools to mark text features.
  Resources:
  - Interactive whiteboard application.
  - Scanner.
• Find and replace punctuation
  Description:
  Use the find and replace tool of a word processor to strip out certain punctuation characters from a text. Alternatively, change all punctuation characters for a single arbitrary character. Challenge pupils to re-punctuate the text. Capital letters may also be removed using the 'change case' feature.
  Resources:
  - Word processor with 'find and replace all' feature. Word processor with 'change case' format option.
• Sentence level re-sequence
  Description:
  Use the word processor's 'drag and drop' or 'cut and paste' facility to investigate the effect of re-ordering words, clauses and phrases in sentences.
  Resources:
  - Word processor.