Unit G – School News
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate the structure and format of journalistic writing used in newspaper reports 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.
Investigate the structure and format of journalistic writing used in newspaper reports and stories about current events
Lesson One : Word Sums
Practise adding the prefixes inter and super to a range of different word roots to build vocabulary words for use in newspaper stories and reports
Lesson Two : News Questions
Identify and record different parts of a newspaper that can answer a range of questions about an event that is happening in the news
Lesson Three : Facts and Opinions
Select and use fronted adverbials to say when, where or how something happened in a news story using facts and opinions about the event
Lesson Four : News Opinions
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
Lesson Five : Headline Questions
Select and record the answers to the key questions of who, when, where, what or why to describe the meaning of a headline that has been selected for a newspaper story
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Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
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Family Holiday Trips
Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world
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Money Multiplication
Explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods to multiply money amounts in pounds and pence when solving number problems
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Sport Teams
Explain and model how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to sentences describing how to play sports and games as part of a team