Module: Communicating (Advanced)

Year Group: Reception

Date:

Key Question/Skill

Activity

Resources

Organisation

Assessment Opportunities

Use the keys to enter letters to make a word.

Use the shift key to create a capital letter.

Use the space bar and full stop to make a sentence.

Literacy:
Write a sentence about their picture.

Teacher to insert the image into TextEase and edit the image.

Child to choose a caption for their own picture.

Child to write out their sentence.

Adult helping with the shift key, full stop and space bar.

Child to write their own name.

Once the individual pages have been created the teacher will design the outline of the book and create links between the pages to make a class book. Children to use the book at the computer.

TextEase

Colour printer

A4 paper

Wordbook

Adult

Children to work individually with adult support.

Literacy:
Adult to scribe: one word.

Simple sentence.

I like...

More complex sentence: My ladybird has 6 spots.

Can pupils:

• Use the keys to create words?
• Use the shift key to create capital letters?
• Create a sentence by using the space bar and full stop?
• Use the on screen book?