Year 4 English Newspaper Writing Complete Unit Ancient Egypt Discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb

This is a complete unit of writing including everything you need for the 2 week cross-curricular piece of writing.

Resources included:
Teaching slides for 10 lessons
2 week of written plans
writing up in best template

Lessons include:
*Lesson 1 - This lesson includes everything you need to teach your children about the discovery of King Tut’s tomb. This lesson has been used as the unit hook previously so the chn need no prior knowledge before teaching this lesson. This lesson includes 37 teaching slides using primary sources such as telegrams, photos of the tomb and treasures and newsreel.
*Lesson 2 - Focuses on vocabulary development and gives the children 9 unfamiliar words to look up in the dictionary and find the definition of before using them in sentences that can be used in their newspaper reports.
*Lesson 3- explores newspaper orientations and scaffolds how to write our own orientation.

• Lesson 4 - hot seat interviewing the main characters from the story and thinking about how they felt and what they would have said in an interview.
• Lesson 5 - teaches the chn how to use their character interviews using inverted commas.
• Lesson 6, 7 and 8 - all teach the main body and reorientation of the newspaper report using event checklists for each paragraph, uses spaces for whole class modeled examples and shares common misconceptions and gives a chance to edit these as a whole class.
• Lesson 9 & 10 - editing, writing headlines and starting to write up in best.