Unit H – School Newspaper
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to plan and write newspaper reports about events that might happen at the school using journalistic language, identify word roots that can be changed by different prefixes and use commas to add fronted adverbials to sentences.
Plan and write newspaper reports about events that might happen at the school using journalistic language
Lesson One : Prefix Headlines
Re-write headlines matching newspaper stories about different events that might have happened in the local area by removing prefixes from some of the words
Lesson Two : Newspaper Pages
Select and record the layout for a newspaper page that can be used to present a news report about a school event
Lesson Three : Newspaper Sentences
Add fronted adverbials to the start of sentences in a newspaper report to indicate where, when or how things happened
Lesson Four : Newspaper Drafts
Draft and edit reports for a newspaper story describing a school event such as a special assembly or class trip
Lesson Five : Title
Complete and publish pages for a newspaper reporting on some of the different events that happened in the school in the past
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Grams and Kilograms Measurements
Practise measuring, recording and calculating measurements in mass when working with and converting units in grams and kilograms
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World Animals
Identify and record how to use the correct determinants before nouns in sentences about animals that live in different habitats around the world
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Determinants Vowels and Consonants
Investigate and record how to compose sentences when using the correct determinants before nouns to match their initial vowels or consonants
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Weather Events
Investigate how to add and punctuate fronted adverbials in model sentences explaining when, how or where something happened in the weather