Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a news report, templates to collect facts and information to answer key questions and present a news report about something that could have happened in Ancient Greece and a worksheet to edit and correct a news report about a fictional historical event.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a newspaper story to describe a fictional historical event from Ancient Greece.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate how to format and structure reports to publish in newspapers illustrating some of the historical events that happened during the Ancient Greek civilization. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.