Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated templates to select and compose a news report to describe a significant event in a narrative story by a significant author and create a storyboard to record the narrative events in the opening to a fantasy story.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a news report to describe a significant event in a narrative story.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate how authors describe and use characters in a fantasy story, use apostrophes to show possession to punctuate descriptive phrases and practise punctuating sentences. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.