Idea 1 - FREE DOWNLOAD - READING COMPREHENSION LESSOnJohn Murray has put together a fantastic comprehension lesson that explores the Audio Description edition of the advert to ensure the advert has a textcentric approach. Download the lesson here:
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IDEA 2 - SIMPLE SEQUENCINGIn this idea suited to KS1, pupils sequence the story using the creative tools within Seesaw.
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IDEA 3 - INTERACTIVE STORYBOARDIn this idea, students share their understanding of the story by creating an interactive storyboard.
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IDEA 4 - RETELLING THE STORY IN OUR OWN WORDS - KS1In this idea, we challenge KS1 students to retell the story in their own words to further practice and improve fluency and oral speaking.
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IDEA 5 - RETELLING THE STORY IN OUR OWN WORDS - KS2In this idea, we look at a more challenging way for KS2 pupils to retell the story in their own words.
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IDEA 6 - CHARACTER EMOTION STORY GRAPHIn this video, we look at creating a graph template before sharing it with pupils for them to track a character's feelings throughout the story.
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IDEA 7 - SPEAKING IN ROLEIn this video, pupils bring the character of Skye to life and imagine what she said to her family when she got back home.
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IDEA 8 - DESIGNING OUR OWN ALIENIn this video, children get the opportunity to combine some digital art with computing by manipulating shapes to create their own alien.
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IDEA 9 - EXPLORING A CHARACTER'S THOUGHTSTo further explore the character's in the story, pupils can take key moments from the story and add their own speech bubbles or thought bubbles.
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IDEA 10 - FIRST PERSON RECOUNTIn this video, pupils can take a first person recount of the story and perform their own writing by narrating over the original video.
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IDEA 11 - GREENSCREEN NEWS REPORTAnother great writing opportunity linked to the advert would be report on the events by creating a newspaper report. This video demonstrates how pupils can perform their news reports as a greenscreen video.
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IDEA 12 - EYEWITNESS INTERVIEWLinked to the previous video, students can interview a character from the story to provide an eyewitness report that can then be linked into the greenscreen news report.
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IDEA 13 - EDITING OUR NEWS REPORTBuilding on the previous couple of ideas, students can edit their newspaper reports together adding in titles, soundtrack and interview.
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IDEA 14 - CREATING OUR OWN SOUNDTRACKAnother creative way to explore the advert is to challenge your students to compose their own soundtrack to the advert.
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IDEA 15 - CREATING OUR OWN CHRISTMAS TV ADVERTNow we have explored the advert, we can challenge our pupils to script and then create their own Christmas advert with a message of the true meaning of Christmas.
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IDEA 16 - MY TOP 5 CHRISTMAS ADSGiven the amount of different Christmas adverts, a nice idea for computing would be to challenge your pupils to create their own countdown video ranking their favourite Christmas adverts.
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IDEA 17 - WHERE DO CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS COME FROM?In the advert we see lots of traditions being shared. In this idea, children can create a video explaining where different traditions originated from.
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