Spartan Herald
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise composing and presenting a newspaper story to describe a fictional historical event that could have occurred in Ancient Greece.
The class can collect notes and write reports to answer the questions of where, when, who, what and why about something that happened in Ancient Greece to publish in a newspaper.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise composing and presenting a newspaper story to illustrate and describe a fictional historical event that could have occurred in Ancient Greece
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a news report, templates to collect facts and information to answer key questions and present a news report about something that could have happened in Ancient Greece and a worksheet to edit and correct a news report about a fictional historical event.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a newspaper story to describe a fictional historical event 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.
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