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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English SPAG Assessment
Assess abilities in composing sentences for fiction and non-fiction using the correct spellings, punctuation marks and grammar vocabulary phrases
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Maths Arithmetic Assessment
Assess abilities in solving arithmetic number problems for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division when working with informal and formal written calculations
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Environment
Identify and describe some of the special landscapes and locations that can be found in the world and reflect on how they can be protected and preserved for the future
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Silent Letter Words
Explore and illustrate the meanings and spellings of some different words with silent letters when using them in a range of topics and scenarios