This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record different parts of a newspaper that can answer a range of questions about an event that is happening in the news.

The class can explain how to structure and format a news report about an event that has been presented in a local newspaper to show answers to key questions about something that happened.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and record different parts of a newspaper that can answer a range of questions about an event that is happening in the news

Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to identify and record the matching sections that have been used in a newspaper story that can answer different questions about an event that is currently happening in the news in the local or national arena.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore parts of a newspaper that can answer different questions about an event 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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