Interactive Amplify (IA) sits at the Interactive row and Amplify column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real English lessons for KS1 that classify as IA, plus anti-examples that look IA but are not.

Class adds phonics words to a shared word wall

Year 1 · 25 min · Shared class device(s) plus the IWB

The teacher names a target phoneme (e.g. /ai/ as in rain). Each child takes a turn (in small groups, on a shared tablet) to add one word containing that phoneme to a class Padlet. The IWB displays the wall growing in real time. The teacher highlights phonemes within each word as the class scrolls.

Tools: Padlet, Seesaw

Sound-to-picture matching on shared whiteboard

Year 1 · 20 min · Shared class device(s) per small group

Each small group has a Jamboard frame with a row of pictures (cat, hat, mat, sun, fan, cap) and a row of phoneme cards. Children drag each phoneme card to the picture it matches. The teacher displays all groups' frames on the IWB and the class compares choices, with the teacher correcting any mismatches as a class.

Tools: Jamboard

Story-retelling voice memos to a class library

Year 2 · 30 min · Shared class device(s) per small group

The teacher reads a short story to the class. In small groups, children take turns recording a voice memo of one sentence retelling the story in sequence. The class then plays back all sentences in order, listening to themselves tell the whole story. The teacher draws out which moments different children chose to emphasise.

Tools: Seesaw

Lessons that look IA but are not

Useful counter-examples when you are checking your own lesson placement on the PICRAT grid.

This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and key stage. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.