Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to identify and correct spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors and mistakes in their model news reports about a mysterious school event before completing a final copy ready for publication.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to edit and redraft a news report to include in a school newspaper publication about a mysterious school event.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to research and write a news report using journalistic writing containing fact and opinion about a mysterious school event, learn rules for adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in fer and use more complex punctuation marks to write sentences. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.