Interactive Amplify (IA) sits at the Interactive row and Amplify column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real English lessons for KS4 that classify as IA, plus anti-examples that look IA but are not.
Lady Macbeth across two scenes, annotated
Each student receives the texts of Act 1 Scene 5 and Act 5 Scene 1 of Macbeth in a shared Google Doc, one document per student. Using suggesting-mode comments, each student highlights three lines per scene that show Lady Macbeth's psychological arc, with a one-line note on what each line reveals. The class scrolls a master view in plenary; the teacher pulls out the cleanest before-and-after pairs and asks the contributing students to defend.
Tools: Google Docs
Two short stories, narrative voice posted to a class wall
Half the class reads Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour; the other half reads Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. Each student posts to one of two columns on a class Padlet: a label for the narrative voice (intrusive, unreliable, third-limited, etc.) and one quoted line that justifies the label. The class scrolls both columns and discusses which voice is more controlled by the writer and which leaves more to the reader.
Tools: Padlet
Live polling on a poem with class debate
The class reads a poem together (e.g. Carol Ann Duffy's Education for Leisure or Jackie Kay's Old Tongue). After the read, the teacher posts a Mentimeter poll with three competing readings of the central theme. Each student commits to one. The class sees the live spread, then in pairs writes a 30-second defence of their choice. The teacher calls three pairs from each side to argue; the class re-polls at the end to see who shifted.
Tools: Mentimeter, Google Docs
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.