Activities in this teaching pack include a table display card to identify and record how news reports are formatted and structured differently from other types of texts including the answers to key questions about something that happened and statements of fact and opinion.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore sentences that have been used in a news report that contain facts and opinions about an event happening in the world.

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.