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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Recycled Art
Explore how to shape and combine different recycled materials to produce a sculpture reflecting the theme of recycling
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Decimal Values
Investigate and record how to compare the values of different decimal numbers by the positions of their tenths, hundredths and thousandths digits
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Threes and Fours
Learn and recall the number facts in the three and four times tables to utilise when solving abstract and contextual problems involving multiplication and division calculations
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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