A Curriculum for Excellence states that we can develop our literacy skills when we have, amongst others, the following opportunities:

• engage with and create a wide range of texts in different media, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by ICT.

• communicate, collaborate and build relationships.

• reflect on and explain my literacy and thinking skills, using feedback to help me improve and sensitively provide useful feedback for others

I believe that blogging can be a highly engaging activity for our children to share their own texts as well as develop relationships with an audience giving/receiving feedback to/from youngsters across the globe.

I enjoy creating texts of my choice and I regularly select subject, purpose, format and resources to suit the needs of my audience. LIT 2-20a

Learning Intention

• We are practicing creative writing.

Success Criteria

• Use weekly prompt prompt.
• Text to be approximately 100 words.
• Imagine…

As a class, we practiced our digital literacy skills today. We prepared “two stars and a wish” feedback for three blog posts by primary school aged pupils in England. The 100 Word Challenge website has links to a plethora of blog posts written by school aged pupils. We discussed ideas with our classmates and then practiced writing feedback in our literacy jotters.

The blog posts we read were from Stanley, Jake F and Lewis H (click on the names to visit the blogs).

Next steps: Adding blog comments to the posts we read. This will help us develop our ICT skills. By commenting on the blogs of others we are “paying it forward” and I hope children and adults will come to read (and comment on) our blog posts.