ABSTRACT
"Literacy from Scratch" is a response to the United Kingdom government's initiative to develop computer programming skills in both the primary phase of education and the secondary phase. The project has several related aspects: it involves the reworking of primary and secondary Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmer's at Brunel University, through which Postgraduate students are taught how to use the MIT Scratch programming language, to create sustained and animated narrative work. Scratch is an elementary computer coding language, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is called a "visual" coding language, as opposed to a text-based language, such as Python, which is used at secondary school level. For Year 1 students, in the first few weeks of ICT lessons, the focus had been extensively on being aware of various aspects of a computer and being able to log on and off the school system.
