what someone wants to tell or show others

Pictures as messages

Digital literacy

How people communicate

Communicating digitally

Sending messages

Kind messages

Choosing how to message

Pupils explore how people communicate, comparing face-to-face and digital methods. They use sounds, images, symbols and simple words to share messages, practise early phonics and learn how technology can send messages instantly or be responded to later in a more considered way.

Message makers

Symbols are pictures that stand for something.

Why might someone use a picture instead of words?

Match the picture type to how it sends a message.

Which message would be best shown using a picture or symbol?

You want everyone to understand a message, even if they cannot read. What should you use?

Which of these is a way to send a message?

Match the way of communicating to what it uses.

Which of these could send a message without using words?

Where are you most likely to see pictures or symbols used as messages?

Starter Quiz

Which of these is a way to send a message?