Interactive Amplify (IA) sits at the Interactive row and Amplify column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real English lessons for KS2 that classify as IA, plus anti-examples that look IA but are not.

Class posts main idea to a Padlet column

Year 4 · 30 min · 1 device per student

The class reads a short story together. Each student then posts what they think the main idea is, in their own words, to a class Padlet. The teacher scrolls the wall, picks four notably different responses and asks the contributing students to defend.

Tools: Padlet

Emotion labels dragged onto poem lines

Year 5 · 35 min · 1 device per student

Each student gets their own Jamboard frame with the same poem displayed and a row of emotion-word stickers (joyful, anxious, hopeful, weary, defiant). They drag the stickers onto specific lines. The class scrolls all thirty frames and the teacher highlights any line where students placed contrasting emotions, asking three students to explain.

Tools: Jamboard

Predicting next chapter on a class wall

Year 6 · 30 min · 1 device per student

After reading the latest chapter of a class book, each student posts a one-sentence prediction for what happens next to a class Padlet. The class votes on the most likely. The teacher then reads the next chapter aloud and the class compares predictions to what actually happened. Students post a one-line reflection on what their prediction missed.

Tools: Padlet

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.