What is it?
A strategy to improve literacy skills using social media as a hook.
How does it work?
Pupils are to 'tweet' a peer what they have learnt or the definition of something or an explanation for how something works. Pupils can use text speak and # just as they would on Twitter and must stick very strictly to the 140 character limit.
Next, pupils pass their tweets to a peer who reads, deciphers and then rewrites their peer's tweet into a terrific sentence/paragraph about the same concept - must be grammatically correct and will not have a world limit.
Possible adaptations???
- In upper school pupils can actually tweet the teacher their ideas, teacher runs the feed to their twitter page on the board and pupils can then pick from the responses on the board which they'd like to make terrific (see example from @FMGeoggers to the right:
- As in the original, however a third step can be added where another peer assesses the finished terrific sentence/paragraph.
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