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{{activity|practical activity}} Choose a topic you each want your class to write about in a forthcoming lesson – it can be a factual topic (eg healthy foods, diseases, hobbies, weddings or buying food in the market) or a creative story. It needs to be fairly broad so children are free to write around the topic without feeling there are right and wrong answers. Devise a title to give them, e.g. “The magic stone” for a story. Discuss the choice with a partner if you like.  
{{activity|practical activity}} Choose a broad topic that you want your class to write about in a forthcoming lesson – it can be a factual topic (eg healthy foods, diseases, hobbies, weddings or buying food in the market) or a creative story. However this is an '''open-ended''' writing activity so children are free to '''devise their own sentences''' around the topic without feeling there are right and wrong answers. Thus a topic asking them to list short responses won't work well.
 
Devise a title to give them, e.g. “The magic stone” for a story. Discuss the choice with a partner if you like.  


{{activity|practical activity}} Now open all the netbooks, take one per workshop participant. Go to EtherPad and try out the collaborative writing task below.  
{{activity|practical activity}} Now open all the netbooks, take one per workshop participant. Go to EtherPad and try out the collaborative writing task below.  
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This section summarises some principles of interactive teaching. They are here for information and reference for the workshop participants. Ask them to look through the list and see if they have any comments? Print the list and ask them to file it in their folders.
This section summarises some principles of interactive teaching. They are here for information and reference for the workshop participants. Ask them to look through the list now and see if they have any comments? Print the list and ask them to file it in their folders.
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