Lesson One – Bethlehem News
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to plan and write a newspaper report describing the the sequence of events surrounding the birth of Jesus as part of the nativity story.
The class can identify the correct ways of structuring and formatting a news report selecting special vocabulary and sentence structures to match the type of text.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to plan and write a newspaper report describing the the sequence of events surrounding the birth of Jesus as part of the nativity story
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify the sequence of events surrounding the birth of Jesus and a template to structure and format a newspaper report about what happened and some of the main characters involved in the nativity story.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a newspaper report about the sequence of events surrounding the birth of Jesus.
This lesson is part of a RE and English scheme of work to get the children to explore and record some of the main events occurred surrounding the birth of Jesus by composing a range of different texts to sequence and illustrate what happened. 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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