Functional skills English, reading inference, speaking and listening. Instagram style. Visual

12 sets of photos representing Instagram accounts and list of questions. Stimulating discussion, speculation and inference.

Print the photos and chop horizontally in sets of three, put the questions on the reverse and laminate them together. Keep each set in an envelope for easy distribution during lessons.

Fantastic activity for learners who find decoding difficult or have a negative attitude towards reading. This is a fun, visual task that students can get started on immediately.

• Provokes thought - what can we learn from pictures? Why do we share photos to social media? Is this reading?
• Stimulates writing - making a point and explaining their reasoning behind it
• Starts discussion - sharing ideas, debating, giving logical reasons, listening to others’ point of view
• Develops reading skills - noticing smaller details and drawing out more information from the pictures. Making informed judgments about characters
• Encourages group speaking - presenting opinions to the group is a great, low pressure way to help under confident learners become comfortable with sharing their thoughts and their voice.

Included
36 photos (12 sets of 3)
Set of questions to go with the photos
Brief lesson plan with curriculum objectives, outline of lesson and list of suggested uses. (curriculum criteria are based on Pearson but these have probably been updated now)