Commentaries using Mario Kart

I can consider audience and purpose

In preparation for the Year 6 SATs we had done a great deal of work on formal writing. I decided to take a different approach.

We used Mario Kart Wii as a basis for writing commentaries. We listened to lots first and identified that many of the sentences are incomplete or short. We also discovered that lots of facts and background information is given about the racers or football players using technical language.

The lovely thing about this project was it gave some of the children who are less able in writing a chance to shine as they had the 'patter'.