Activities in this teaching pack include a table display card to select and use fronted adverbials to say when, where or how something happened in the school that might be reported on in a newspaper story that also includes facts and opinions about what happened.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use fronted adverbials to say when, where or how something happened in the news using facts and opinions.

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.