Literacy Class Activities by Ava Pyper

Digital Storytelling Project

apyper5 — 2025-10-12 22:06:43 UTC

Students create short digital stories (3-5 minutes) using tools like Adobe Spark or Canva, combining images, music, and narration to tell personal or fictional stories. This integrates technology with traditional storytelling and develops multimedia literacy skills.

News Article Analysis & Creation

apyper5 — 2025-10-12 22:06:43 UTC

Students analyse current news articles for bias, credibility, and writing techniques. Then they write their own news articles about school or community events, learning journalistic writing styles and media literacy skills.

Character Social Media Profiles

apyper5 — 2025-10-12 22:06:43 UTC

Students create fake social media profiles for characters from literature they're reading. Include posts, photos, friends lists, and interactions that reflect the character's personality, conflicts, and story arc. This modernises character analysis while developing digital literacy.

Book Trailer Creation

apyper5 — 2025-10-12 22:06:43 UTC

Students create movie-style trailers for books they've read, using video editing software to combine visuals, music, and text. This requires understanding of plot, theme, and audience appeal while developing technical and creative skills.

Years 1-8

apyper5 — 2025-10-12 22:08:19 UTC

Year 9 + 10

apyper5 — 2025-10-12 22:09:21 UTC

The Literacy Shed

apyper5 — 2025-10-12 22:11:12 UTC

The Literacy Shed offers free access to a wide range of high-quality films and animations that teachers can use to inspire reading and writing lessons. Their resources are organised thematically so teachers can use individual films or a range of them integrated into broader literacy units.

Pobble365

apyper5 — 2025-10-12 22:12:29 UTC

A free, ready-made writing prompt every day to engage and motivate your students.

GetEpic!

apyper5 — 2025-10-12 22:18:21 UTC

A free online book account, books can be read to students, they can read themselves, you can set books to read with quizzes at the end.

Years 1-8

apyper5 — 2025-10-12 22:19:17 UTC

Year 9 + 10

apyper5 — 2025-10-12 22:25:31 UTC