Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to record how to edit and change headlines for newspaper stories by removing some of the words with different prefixes such as dis, mis and in.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how newspaper reports are structured and formatted differently from other types of writing and how to add prefixes to different word roots which can be used when composing headlines to match events in the news.

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.