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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Fraction Lengths, Masses and Capacities
Practise using division number skills to calculate and record the fractions of different measurements for length, mass and capacity
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Story Changes
Explore different ways of changing characters, settings and events in a story by a significant children’s author
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Easter Viewpoints
Explore some of the main narrative events in the Easter story and suggest how different characters might have reacted to what happened to Jesus
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Viking Longships
Select, combine and adjust different graphic shapes to create the design that could be used on a replica Viking longship sail