Lesson Four – News Opinions
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to devise and compose a newspaper editorial to record a selection of opinions about a story that is currently happening in the news in the local, national or global arena.
The class can explain and model how to use fronted adverbials to say when, where or how something happened in a news report when recording opinions about the event.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to devise and compose a newspaper editorial to record a selection of opinions about a story that is currently happening in the news in the local, national or global arena
Activities in this teaching pack include a table display card to help format and structure a newspaper editorial to select and record a selection of opinions about a news story to show someone’s thoughts and ideas about what is happening in the event.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a newspaper editorial to record opinions about a story that is currently happening in the news.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate the structure and format of journalistic writing used in newspaper reports and stories about current events, practise building words by adding the prefixes inter and super to different word roots and write fact and opinion sentences using fronted adverbials. 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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