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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Detective Stories
Investigate common narrative features and styles of mystery and thriller writing, learn spelling rules for adding the suffix able and practise using commas to write compound and complex sentences
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Detective Story Puzzles
Identify and record how to write an extra section to match the structure and format of a detective story to create puzzles in the mind of the reader about what happened
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Detective Story Paragraphs
Model and record how to convert a selection of paragraphs from a detective story from the first to the third person to indicate the sequence of narrative events
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Character Viewpoints
Select and compose a selection of paragraphs to match the content of a detective story written from the viewpoint of one of the characters