Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading to explore how to compose a news report using an example text about a pupil’s family holiday and a table display card to select and compose sentences to add to a news report adding fronted adverbials to say when, where or how things happened.

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 to indicate when, where or how things happened.

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.