Lesson Four – Magazine Planning
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to plan the content and structure of a magazine article outlining arguments for and against the installation of a wind turbine in the school grounds.
The class can select and record the viewpoints of different groups that might have an opinion about the wind turbine using persuasive language to get someone to support a viewpoint.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to plan the content and structure of a magazine article outlining arguments for and against the installation of a wind turbine in the school grounds
Activities in this teaching pack include a template for core and extension ability levels to select and record arguments for and against the installation of a wind turbine in the school grounds from the viewpoints of different groups and a worksheet for support ability levels to use sentence starters when constructing sentences for a magazine article about an environmental issue.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to plan a magazine article outlining arguments for and against the installation of a wind turbine in the school grounds.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to plan and write a magazine article about an environmental issue, learn rules to spell words with cial and tial endings and use commas to separate phrases and clauses in a sentence. 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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