Unit H – School Newspaper

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to plan and write newspaper reports about events that might happen at the school using journalistic language, identify word roots that can be changed by different prefixes and use commas to add fronted adverbials to sentences.

Plan and write newspaper reports about events that might happen at the school using journalistic language

Lesson One : Prefix Headlines

Re-write headlines matching newspaper stories about different events that might have happened in the local area by removing prefixes from some of the words

Lesson Two : Newspaper Pages

Select and record the layout for a newspaper page that can be used to present a news report about a school event

Lesson Three : Newspaper Sentences

Add fronted adverbials to the start of sentences in a newspaper report to indicate where, when or how things happened

Lesson Four : Newspaper Drafts

Draft and edit reports for a newspaper story describing a school event such as a special assembly or class trip

Lesson Five : Title

Complete and publish pages for a newspaper reporting on some of the different events that happened in the school in the past

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