Summer News
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise composing and publishing a newspaper report to record and illustrate some of the special events that the class experienced during the school summer holidays.
The class can explain how to structure and format journalistic writing to answer the questions of who, when, where, what and why in a news report.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise composing and publishing a newspaper report to record and illustrate some of the special events that the class experienced during the school summer holidays
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a news report about something that happened, templates to plan and present newspaper stories about a personal experience during the summer holiday by collecting notes and writing sentences to answer key questions and a worksheet to edit and correct a news report about what happened during the school summer holiday.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a newspaper report to record experiences and events that might have happened during the school summer holiday.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify and illustrate how to structure and format reports using journalistic writing to publish newspapers about things happening in the school. 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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