Newspaper Year 5/6 Guided Reading Unit

A full guided reading unit of seven lessons all about newspapers. This unit will cover the differences between tabloids and broadsheets, facts and opinions and the features of newspapers.

Lesson 1: Like all the guided reading planning on Class Helper, the first lesson is a knowledge harvest. In this lesson the pupils will mindmap their associations with newspapers and any features they know.

Lesson 2: We look into the features of newspapers in detail and look at the contrasting differences between tabloids and broadsheets.

Lesson 3: In this lesson, we’re focusing on digital newspapers and answering one mark mock Sats questions on the provided article.

Lesson 4: Building a wide vocabulary is key within Class Helper’s guided reading planning and in this lesson pupils will underline adjective in a film review and use thesauruses to find synonyms and antonyms.

Lesson 5: Focusing on the photographs and captions used in newspaper articles, in this lesson pupils will create their own drawing to match the article.

Lesson 6: What’s more fun than one lesson of Sats questions? Yes, two! And two is the keyword as this lesson focuses on two mark questions. The text in this lesson looks at a typical tabloid article.

Lesson 7: The final lesson in this guided reading unit looks at the difference between fact and opinion. Pupils have a worksheet with different statements about the given article and they need to work out whether the statements are fact or opinion, and back up their answer using quotations.

The download includes fully editable Word document success criteria, texts for each lesson, PowerPoints and a unit plan for guidance.