Back From the Future
Back From the Future is an experiential learning resource for upper KS2 that has been developed by Gill Matthews and Sylvia Karavis. Back From the Future gives children a context in which to write, authentic audiences to write to and real purposes for their writing. The unfolding narrative in Back From the Future engages the children and motivates them as writers.
Back From the Future can be used as a stand alone literacy resource, for ongoing assessment and for preparation for KS2 SATs, as all major non-fiction text types as well as narrative are covered.
Back From the Future is from the same stable as the highly successful S.P.O.O.C.S programme.
About Back From the Future
A mystery time traveller needs help. He has returned from the year 2999, where the imminent arrival of the Millennium Bug will obliterate all electronic texts. In the absence of paper based texts and the loss of writing skills, the time traveller needs some scribes to help him save all texts. So, Scribes to Save All Texts (SSATs) are recruited. Through video links with Time Traveller 27, the children in your class help to save the day by becoming SSATs, producing a range of fiction and non-fiction texts.
Where next?
- Download a Back From the Future order form
- Visit the Back From the Future website
- Tell Gill about your experiences of Back From the Future
