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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