I love a good Christmas lesson, so when I heard that I could use the FX Guru app to create a video clip of reindeer dancing through my classroom, I just had to use it! It's so easy: you just film your room for 30 seconds, it shows you an outline of where the reindeer will appear and then, voila! Take a look at mine: Lesson PlansI decided to use the video as a stimulus for the children to write a witness statement for the police. This is something I've done before and I particularly like it to show Greater Depth with Year 6. (I used another here, with the Greater Depth elements explained) All resources used can be found in the free PDF download at the bottom of the post. Lesson 1 – Hook & feature hunt
Support: careful peer partnering, teacher checking understanding, scaffolded sheet for planning Stretch: questioning – why is this what we find in a statement? Look at the tense shifts. Lesson 2 – Write You can structure this however you like. You could use paired writing, guided or independent. Below is a plan for independent writing.
Lesson 3 – Editing Stations Give children time to read their work from yesterday. They should have a pencil in their hand as they do this, so they can make changes if needed.
NOTE: after this lesson, it’s nice for the children to ‘publish’ their work. You could ask them to write it neatly, set it as a homework task, let them use pen if they don’t usually, ask them to type it... I don’t do this for every piece of work, s it becomes tedious for some, but it’s a good way to apply and embed the changes.
So, there you have it! Please like and share this post and please share your experiences of it on my Facebook page so I can see how it went!
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