Sending messages

Digital literacy

How people communicate

Communicating digitally

Pictures as 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

Messages disappear if you don't reply to them.

Which message is most likely to be seen or heard straight away?

a quick text when both people are using devices

Which digital message is often seen later?

sending a message when the other person's device is off

In which of these situations would the message be seen later?

Messages must always be seen immediately.

The other person might not be using their device.

You send a message and it is not seen straight away. What is the best explanation?

Which of these is a way people send messages?

Which of these ways of sending a message uses a digital device?

You want to send a message that can be seen when you are not there. Which of the following could you do?

Put these steps for sending a digital message in the order they usually happen.

Sending messages

Lesson outcome