Lesson Five – Myth News

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to plan and compile an example news report to describe some of the different narrative events that occurred in a Greek myth about a hero and a monster.
The class can identify and make predictions as to how the narrative might develop and conclude in a myth from Ancient Greece to show the text features of this type of writing.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to plan and compile an example news report to describe some of the different narrative events that occurred in a Greek myth about a hero and a monster
Activities in this teaching pack include a table display card to select and use relative clauses to modify nouns in sentences written in a newspaper report and a template to structure and format a news report illustrating the narrative events in a Greek myth.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compile a news report to describe some of the events that occurred in a Greek myth.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore the text features and characteristic structures of myths and legends, match words roots with the verb prefixes dis and mis and practise embedding relative clauses into sentences. 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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