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.