Lesson Four – News Report Draft
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise composing the written draft for a news report describing a mysterious event that could have happened in the school.
The class can explain and model how to use colons to introduce lists in their newspaper reports about a school event to show some of the mysterious things that could have happened.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise composing the written draft for a news report describing a mysterious event that could have happened in the school
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to structure and format a news report using the correct vocabulary and sentence structures to describe a mysterious event that could have happened in the school including the use of colons to introduce lists in the journalistic writing.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a draft news report to describe a mysterious event that could have happened in the school.
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.
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