Lesson Six – Great Fire News Report
This history teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to write a newspaper report to describe some of the events surrounding the Great Fire of London in the seventeenth century,
The class can sort events about the Great Fire into the correct chronological order to use when composing a news report about the causes and consequences of the event.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to write a newspaper report to describe some of the events surrounding the Great Fire of London in the seventeenth century
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of information and date cards to sort events surrounding the Great Fire into chronological order, a vocabulary word bank to use when composing a news report about the Great Fire and a template to construct and format a news report about an event in history.
The interactive presentation gets the children to identify the correct chronological order of the events surrounding the Great Fire of London and explain how to compose a news report about what happened.
This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to investigate, describe and record information about some of the historical events surrounding the Great Fire of London that occurred in the seventieth century. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.
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