Lesson Five – News Report Editing
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record some of the different changes and improvements that could be made to a news report about an event happening in the world so that it is ready for publication.
The class can explain and model how to add lists to some of the different sentences in a news report using colons and commas.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and record some of the different changes and improvements that could be made to a news report about an event happening in the world so that it is ready for publication
Activities in this teaching pack include a table display card to investigate how to make different changes and improvements to a news report about an event currently happening in the world including adding lists using colons and commas.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to make changes and improvements to a news report so that it is ready for publication.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate some of the different ways that news stories about mysteries are reported and presented using journalistic writing, explore rules for adding the suffixes able and ible to word roots and practise using a colon to introduce a list in a sentence. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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