Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify the sequence of events and characters in an Ancient Greek myth, templates to collect facts and information to answer key questions and present a news report about the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur and a worksheet to edit and correct a news report about a myth from Ancient Greece.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a news report to present information about what happened in the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur 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.