War of the Worlds
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise converting an extract from a science-fiction story into a newspaper report to illustrate the main features of this style of writing.
The class can identify and explain how to use vocabulary words and sentence structures to format a news report related to some of the events that occur in a fiction story.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise converting an extract from a science-fiction story into a newspaper report to illustrate the main features of this style of writing
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explore the sequence of events in an extract from a science fiction story, a worksheet to record answer to key questions to collect information to use in a news report and a template to structure and format a news report based on one of the narrative events in a science-fiction story.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to convert an extract from a science-fiction story into a newspaper report to illustrate the main features of this style of writing.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get 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. 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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