This resource includes everything you need to teach children in KS2 and KS3 how to write a newspaper report. It consists of an example of a newspaper report, it covers the structural and language features of newspaper reports and it includes differentiated consolidation tasks for each feature. It also provides a stimulus and context for students to write their own newspaper report along with a feature checklist.

The resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson complete with:
√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Starter and plenary activities
√ Review of relevant prior learning
√ Teaching input/ information slides
√ Example of a good newspaper report
√ Speaking, listening, reading, writing & grammar tasks
√ Differentiated consolidation tasks (3 levels)
√ Feature checklist
√ Writing/ application task

Learning Objective:
LO: To identify the features of and write a newspaper report

Success Criteria:
I can determine the purpose and audience of a news report.
I can identify the features of a news report.
I can read and understand a news report.
I can plan and write my own news report.

Vocabulary: non-fiction, fact, opinion, headline, paragraph, formal language, factual adjectives, third person perspective, past simple tense, public, audience, byline, quote, photograph, vertical, columns, article, introduction, main body, conclusion, section, publish

This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.