Teaching writing with ICT

• Target learners: children age 10 A1 level
• Textbook: Susan House- Katharine Scott (2012) SPARKS 2. Richmond. Unit 3 "Look what I can do!"
• Unit Theme: abilities
• ICT resources integrated: Learn to read at Starfall web site- Iam reading section. "I can do it" http://more2.starfall.com/n/fiction-nonfiction/icandoit/load.htm?f
• Skills:Mediated by ICT :  reading and writing            not mediated by ICT: speaking
• Linguistics aims: write a short poem related to one character of the story.

1. After reading the story,follow these steps to write a poem:

• choose one of the characters
• Give it a name
• What can it do?
• What colour is it?
• Why did you choose it?

2. Adjust the information you collected to create a poem. After you create the text use a word processor to decorate it. Play with colours, fonts, include images, be creative!