Collections Idea from Jeni Smith's UEA writing teachers 11.3.2015.
You will need:
Method: Collect, discuss in pairs, compose, write, display, tour and admire, discuss and reflect.
- some ideas/examples of information texts' contexts, purposes and structures (e.g. explanatory text-boxes, museum information plaques, captions, annotations, advertisements, instruction texts, health warnings, historical quizzes and time-lines, labelled diagrams etc)
- containers: old chocolate boxes, cardboard lids, egg-boxes, moulded plastic packaging etc
- collections of 'stuff and clutter' - from pockets, bags, cupboards, bins, button tins, bric-a-brac, toy-boxes, floor-sweepings. leaves, pencil cases (delete as available/hygienic)
Method: Collect, discuss in pairs, compose, write, display, tour and admire, discuss and reflect.