Lesson Two – Fact and Opinion
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and record example sentences to match the content behind different newspaper headlines using statements for fact and opinion.
The class can explain how to structure and format a news report about something mysterious that might be happening in the world including the use of fact and opinion statements and sentences.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and record example sentences to match the content behind different newspaper headlines using statements for fact and opinion
Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to select and record sentences that can match different news headlines about mysteries in the world including statements with facts and opinions to illustrate what happened.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose sentences about the content behind different news headlines using statements for fact and opinion.
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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