Unit 4A: Writing for different audiences Section 3: SHORT FOCUSED TASKS
Objectives
Children should learn:
key idea: that ICT can be used to reorganise text to make its meaning clearer
technique: to use cut and paste to reorder a piece of text
Activities
Outcomes
Children:
Enter a set of descriptions of events in random order, eg sets of instructions, historical events, recollections of what ten witnesses saw/heard at a bank robbery. Explain to the class that information is not always presented in the most useful way. Demonstrate the use of cut and paste to move text around the screen.
Divide the class into pairs and ask the children to reorder the sentences to produce a clearer sequence of events.
use cut and paste to reorder text
produce a coherent sequence of events
Points to note
Children should work on a copy of the teacher's pre-prepared file.
If the sentences include clues about the duration of events or time, children could be asked to add a timeline to their account.
Children who have difficulty remembering what they have done could be given a printout of the original random sequence.
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