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__**Teaching Twiction**__
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Whatever your subject, get your students writing Twiction. It can help them to improve their literacy and ICT skills by:


 * **be more precise in their choice of language.**
 * **develop the ability to read into (and add) extra layers of meaning**
 * **consider what they show the reader and strategies to hook the reader**
 * **develop characterisation skills (including viewpoint and voice)**
 * **consider and develop structural narrative skills**

Here, you can download (//RIGHT CLICK, SAVE TARGET AS)// lesson plans and Powerpoint resources to support your students in developing these skills. Feel free to edit and amend lesson plans/resources as you feel necessary.

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__**RESOURCES:**__

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__**LESSON 1**__ - (Objective: demonstrating an understanding of the language and basic format of twiction)



__**LESSON 2**__- (Objective: Developing different twiction formats to add variety and layers of meaning to narrative)

__**LESSON 3** - Planning twiction__ (objective: to plan a piece of twiction) - this could be done as a group task with students deciding on taking the role of a character in the story they plan together.

__**Lesson 4 - Writing Twiction - use our Template (ICT for student use is desirable):**__

 * After lesson two**, your students should be encouraged to plan characters and events as part of a story using the planning resources (lesson 3) AND TO START WRITING THEIR TWICTION.

You can give them a template to use to write their Twiction on:


 * You can see an example of a Simpsons episode by looking at this Twiction Example:**


 * Once your students have written on the template (either typed or hand-written), they should be sent to teentwiction@live.co.uk**

__**Extension: (optional) Lesson 5 - Creating Twiction On Twitter (Smartphones/ICT resources essential!)**__
If students have worked in a group to plan and write the template for their story, they can share their work on [|www.twitter.com] and with the world.

Give students this guide to uploading their story onto [|www.twitter.com] - as soon as they complete all ten steps, their twiction will be shared with our followers across the world via Twitter and their original template will be published on our website to be reviewed by others.

Each submission will be entered into the running for the Teen Twiction Award which is announced on 20th December each year.