Story News

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and model how to compose news reports using journalistic writing to outline some of the narrative events in a fiction story. The class can explain how to present answers to key questions in their news reports.

War of the Worlds
Practise converting an extract from a science-fiction story into a newspaper report to illustrate the main features of this style of writing
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Times Tables Division
Practise using facts in each of the times tables to support the division of pairs of numbers when solving a range of problems
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Football Teams
Investigate and record how to format and structure letters that could be sent to and from football teams for different purposes and functions
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School Letters
Practise composing and publishing letters to different members in the school community for a range of functions and purposes
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Living Things and Habitats
Identify, group and compare some of the different plants and animals that live in a variety of habitats around the world