Lesson Three – News Sentences
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record some of the matching sentences that have been written in a news report that contains facts and opinions about an event happening in the world.
The class can explain how news reports answer the questions of who, when, where, what and why about something that has happened.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and record some of the matching sentences that have been written in a news report that contains facts and opinions about an event happening in the world
Activities in this teaching pack include a table display card to identify and record how news reports are formatted and structured differently from other types of texts including the answers to key questions about something that happened and statements of fact and opinion.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore sentences that have been used in a news report that contain facts and opinions about an event happening in the world.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate some of the different ways that news stories about mysteries are reported and presented using journalistic writing, explore rules for adding the suffixes able and ible to word roots and practise using a colon to introduce a list in a sentence. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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