English Journalistic Writing Teaching Resources

Discover lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Key Stage Two to teach about composing reports using journalistic language and text structures

  • Ancient Greek News

    Ancient Greek News

    Investigate how to format and structure reports to publish in newspapers illustrating some of the historical events that happened during the Ancient Greek civilization

  • Class Newspapers

    Class Newspapers

    Identify and illustrate how to structure and format reports using journalistic writing to publish newspapers about things happening in the school

  • Sport News

    Sport News

    Practise composing and publishing news reports to describe some of the special events that can happen at sporting competitions and tournaments

  • Story News

    Story News

    Explore and model how to compose news reports using journalistic writing to outline some of the narrative events in a fiction story

  • Four Seasons

    Four Seasons

    Explain and model how to select and manipulate descriptive vocabulary to use when composing different types of poems about each season of the year

  • Weather Changes

    Weather Changes

    Practise composing and presenting different types of poems to illustrate how the weather can make changes to the world

  • Spooky Night

    Spooky Night

    Select and use descriptive language in poetry to describe spooky sights and shadows that might be seen in a bedroom at night during Halloween

  • French Schools

    French Schools

    Learn and practise speaking and writing French vocabulary and word phrases to describe some of the special things that can happen and are used in a school