Real classroom lesson ideas that sit in CA, with anti-examples to sharpen your placement.
By Andy Perryer, Head of Digital Learning3 lessons
Creative Amplify (CA) sits at the Creative row and Amplify column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real English lessons for KS3 that classify as CA, plus anti-examples that look CA but are not.
Multimedia book report with embedded research
Year 8
· 100 min
· 1 device per student
Each student builds a six-slide book report on a class novel. Slides include: a chosen cover image with rationale, a character mood-board with three image choices, a key-passage slide with embedded student-recorded audio of them reading aloud, a setting slide with research images, a thematic slide with a one-line thesis, and a recommendation slide. They present to the class for three minutes each.
Each student builds a single page presenting their analysis of one poem. The page has the full poem at the top, an embedded audio recording of the student reading the poem aloud, hover-text annotations on six key lines (with the annotation appearing when the reader hovers over the line), and a 200-word thematic essay below. They publish the page for the class to read.
Year 9
· 80 min
· 1 device per student plus headphones and a mic
Each student records a 90-second podcast review of a class novel. The review must include a thesis, two pieces of textual evidence read aloud, a recommended audience and a music bed chosen for the novel's tone. They submit individually to the teacher's class podcast feed.