Activities in this teaching pack include a table display card to follow a sequence of steps about how to compose a news report about something that happened in the school and a template to structure and format a story for a newspaper answering key questions about a school event.

The interactive presentation gets the children to identify and explain how to format and structure a news report about an event that happened in the past and how to compose sentences for a news report using fronted adverbials, the past tense and impersonal language.

This lesson is part of a English scheme of work to get 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. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.